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Cardinal Gregory: Till memorial should inspire youth to ‘work for a better world’


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Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, the Catholic Church’s first African American cardinal, reacted to President Joe Biden establishing the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Mississippi and Illinois July 25, saying it was important to remember that youth’s brutal, tragic murder and his mother’s heroic quest for justice as the work for civil rights continues.

In National Black Catholic Congress workshop, Baltimore Black Catholic director confronts racism


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Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, National Black Congress, News, Racial Justice

Adrienne Curry, director of the archdiocesan Office for Black Catholic Ministries, didn’t hold back any punches in her talk about the Catholic Church’s response to racism that she gave at the recent 13th National Black Catholic Congress.

Eucharist should inspire work for justice, Cardinal Gregory says at Unity Mass for ANEC


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Catholic Standard Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

At a July 22 Unity Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C,. for the fourth African National Eucharistic Congress, Cardinal Wilton Gregory urged congress participants to work for justice, to care for others and to protect the environment.

At African National Eucharistic Congress, Cardinal Gregory calls Eucharist ‘an incredible gift’ and ‘path to unity’


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Catholic Standard Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

Calling the Eucharist “an incredible gift that the Lord has given us,” Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory said July 22 that the Most Blessed Sacrament unites all Catholics “no matter our language, liturgical style, or cultural expressions.”

In keynote at National Black Catholic Congress, Cardinal Gregory says the Eucharist inspires ‘our prophetic call to love’


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Catholic Standard Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, National Black Congress, News, Racial Justice, World News

Addressing an estimated 3,000 African American Catholics from 80 dioceses across the United States gathered for Congress XIII of the National Black Catholic Congress in the Washington, D.C., area from July 20-23, Cardinal Wilton Gregory welcomed them to “a family reunion,” and encouraged them to center their lives on the Eucharist in order to bring Christ’s love and hope to the world.

At Black Catholic Congress Youth Town Hall, Cardinal Gregory and Bishop Steib discuss vocations, community and racism


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Catholic Standard Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, National Black Congress, News, Racial Justice, World News

At a July 20 town hall gathering with Catholic youth at the National Black Catholic Congress XII, Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory joined Bishop J. Terry Steib, the bishop emeritus of Memphis, Tennessee in encouraging young people to keep the faith and follow their dreams.

Archbishop Lori: National Black Catholic Congress is ‘vitally important’


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Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, National Black Congress, News, Racial Justice

Archbishop William E. Lori, himself a delegate to the NBCC, said that the congress is and has been “vitally important” for the Archdiocese of Baltimore because it enables “the Black Catholic community to come together to acknowledge and share their gifts, to discuss pastoral needs and opportunities, and to plan for evangelization, to plan for exerting influence and even transformation in the life of the larger church, and particularly on issues of combating racism.”

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