Racial Justice

‘Exciting times’ for Baltimore and Oblate Sisters as Mother Lange’s sainthood cause advances

June 22, 2023
By Gerry Jackson
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Saints

Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore rejoiced June 22 at the prospects of one of their own moving closer to sainthood. Mother Lange, also the founder of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence, was declared venerable when Pope France signed a decree recognizing her as having “lived the Christian virtues in a heroic way. “

Pope declares ‘venerable’ Baltimore’s Mother Lange, Fátima visionary

June 22, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, Saints, Vatican, World News

Recognizing they lived the Christian virtues in a heroic way, Pope Francis has declared venerable Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, founder of the first Catholic order of African American nuns, and Sister Lúcia dos Santos, who, with her cousins, reported seeing Mary when she was a child in Fátima, Portugal.

Juneteenth offers important reminder to work for freedom, justice today, cardinal says

June 19, 2023
By Catherine Buckler
OSV News Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

Celebrating a special Mass June 18 at Mount Calvary Parish in Forestville to commemorate the next day’s Juneteenth federal holiday, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington said that historic event offers an important reminder to work for freedom and justice.

Sister Wilhelmina’s apparently incorrupt body shows in Christ ‘death loses its power and its sting,’ says abbess

June 19, 2023
By Maria Wiering
OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, Saints, World News

Sister Wilhelmina’s body continues to draw both the faithful and the curious to their monastery outside of Gower, Mo., a half-hour drive east from St. Joseph and the state’s Kansas border.

Ending racism demands ‘hard spiritual work,’ Eucharistic commitment, says Archbishop Pérez in pastoral letter

June 19, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

Philadelphia Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez has issued a pastoral letter on racial healing, addressing “the grave sin of racism” and urging faithful to “embark on a journey of conversion” as believers in Jesus Christ and his real presence in the Eucharist.

Oblate Sisters celebrate 10th anniversary of transfer of Mother Lange’s remains

June 5, 2023
By Lisa Harlow
Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Saints

It’s been 10 years since the remains of Mother Mary Lange were transferred from New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore to the Our Lady of Mount Providence Convent Chapel of the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Arbutus.

Head of bishops’ anti-racism committee praises investigations into racist histories

May 31, 2023
By Maria Wiering
OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

Ahead of the U.S. bishops’ meeting in Orlando, Fla., June 14-16, Bishop Joseph N. Perry said that new investigations by church institutions into their involvement with slavery and Indian boarding schools are “very healthy” and aid a collective examination of conscience.

‘Exciting times’ for Baltimore and Oblate Sisters as Mother Lange’s sainthood cause advances

Pope declares ‘venerable’ Baltimore’s Mother Lange, Fátima visionary

Juneteenth offers important reminder to work for freedom, justice today, cardinal says

Sister Wilhelmina’s apparently incorrupt body shows in Christ ‘death loses its power and its sting,’ says abbess

Ending racism demands ‘hard spiritual work,’ Eucharistic commitment, says Archbishop Pérez in pastoral letter

Oblate Sisters celebrate 10th anniversary of transfer of Mother Lange’s remains

Head of bishops’ anti-racism committee praises investigations into racist histories

Thousands flock to Missouri for ‘electrifying’ visit to former Baltimore nun’s apparently incorrupt body

Nun’s incorruptible remains highlight rich heritage of Black Catholics in U.S., say experts

A time for reckoning: Archdiocese of Baltimore forms commission to investigate church connection to slavery

Despite new EPA rule to reduce toxic pollution, Catholic activist says fight to protect communities far from over

Finances bottleneck potential canonization of dozens of American saints and martyrs

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