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![Joint Conference to celebrate Black Catholic clergy, religious, and seminarians in Louisville](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/smdplville.jpg)
Joint Conference to celebrate Black Catholic clergy, religious, and seminarians in Louisville
The annual gathering comes just weeks after the passing of National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus president Fr Norman Fischer.
![Joint Conference to celebrate Black Catholic clergy, religious, and seminarians in Louisville](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/smdplville.jpg)
Joint Conference to celebrate Black Catholic clergy, religious, and seminarians in Louisville
The annual gathering comes just weeks after the passing of National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus president Fr Norman Fischer.
![Interview: Gloria Purvis talks racism, resistance at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/1000005889.jpg)
Interview: Gloria Purvis talks racism, resistance at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress
She spoke with Briana Jansky following her keynote address on Saturday night in Indianapolis.
!['God is raising up a generation': National Eucharistic Congress draws Black Catholic pilgrims of faith and prayer](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/frjoshnec.jpg)
'God is raising up a generation': National Eucharistic Congress draws Black Catholic pilgrims of faith and prayer
Briana Jansky recounts conversations with attendees from around the country seeking renewal in Indianapolis.
![Black Catholics help kick off 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/necdayonegirl2.jpg)
Black Catholics help kick off 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis
The historic event, led by the U.S. Catholic bishops, is expected to draw upwards of 50,000 attendees to Lucas Oil Stadium over the next several days.
![Interview: Gloria Purvis talks racism, resistance at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/1000005889.jpg)
Interview: Gloria Purvis talks racism, resistance at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress
She spoke with Briana Jansky following her keynote address on Saturday night in Indianapolis.
!['The Bishop of Rome': What the new Vatican document tells us about the pope](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/06/bishopofromedoc.jpeg)
'The Bishop of Rome': What the new Vatican document tells us about the pope
Fr John McKenzie explains a new Vatican document that encourages Christian unity and takes a fresh look at the meaning of papal primacy.
![National synthesis for interim synod stage notes zeal, division in U.S. Catholic Church](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/06/446492818_429559949863774_6596164445727258564_n.jpg)
National synthesis for interim synod stage notes zeal, division in U.S. Catholic Church
The document brings together diocesan reports from listening sessions held during Lent, ahead of this fall's Synod on Synodality session in Rome.
![Stand up for the African Americans on the path to sainthood.](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/05/santosubito.jpg)
Stand up for the African Americans on the path to sainthood.
Ralph E. Moore Jr. says this year should be the start of a direct campaign for the sainthood of the first six African Americans up for canonization.
![Podcast: Dr. Mario Dance on the fight for Catholic campus missionaries of color](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/dr-dance-podcast-image.png)
Podcast: Dr. Mario Dance on the fight for Catholic campus missionaries of color
A Black Catholic retired veterinarian is working to diversify campus outreach in the U.S. Catholic Church. Long story short: The work ain't easy.
![What I learned from a Perpetual Pilgrim on his way to the National Eucharistic Congress](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/fayad-1.jpeg)
What I learned from a Perpetual Pilgrim on his way to the National Eucharistic Congress
Dr. Alice Prince recounts her experience meeting Patrick Fayad during his stop in St. Louis on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage.
![ESSENCE Festival panels cover health equity at future XULA medical school campus](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/xocompanel.jpeg)
ESSENCE Festival panels cover health equity at future XULA medical school campus
The event was hosted by the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM), announced two years ago and currently seeking accreditation.
![Seven inner-city independent Catholic schools in New York to revert to archdiocese](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/06/stathanasiusbronx.jpg)
Seven inner-city independent Catholic schools in New York to revert to archdiocese
The Partnership for Inner-City Education nonprofit had administered the schools, some of which are majority-Black, for more than a decade.
![Navigating faith in a contentious political race](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/faithpolitics.png)
Navigating faith in a contentious political race
Samantha Smith explains how Catholics can make it through the 2024 election cycle with faith, hope, and love intact.
![Kamala Harris makes first speech as 2024 presidential hopeful](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/kamalade.png)
Kamala Harris makes first speech as 2024 presidential hopeful
She delievered the remarks, sans President Joe Biden, from her new campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.
![President Joe Biden drops out of 2024 race, endorses VP Kamala Harris](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/kamalabiden.jpg)
President Joe Biden drops out of 2024 race, endorses VP Kamala Harris
The about-face for the 81-year-old incumbent was a shock to many, but had been predicted by Washington insiders as early as last week.
![Interview: Gloria Purvis talks racism, resistance at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/1000005889.jpg)
Interview: Gloria Purvis talks racism, resistance at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress
She spoke with Briana Jansky following her keynote address on Saturday night in Indianapolis.
![Podcast: Dr. Mario Dance on the fight for Catholic campus missionaries of color](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/dr-dance-podcast-image.png)
Podcast: Dr. Mario Dance on the fight for Catholic campus missionaries of color
A Black Catholic retired veterinarian is working to diversify campus outreach in the U.S. Catholic Church. Long story short: The work ain't easy.
![Institute for Black Catholic Studies honors Eucharistic Revival on its own terms in New Orleans](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/roryrevival3.jpg)
Institute for Black Catholic Studies honors Eucharistic Revival on its own terms in New Orleans
Adoration infused with Black Catholic spirituality punctuated the three-week session of graduate studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.
![ESSENCE Festival panels cover health equity at future XULA medical school campus](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/xocompanel.jpeg)
ESSENCE Festival panels cover health equity at future XULA medical school campus
The event was hosted by the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM), announced two years ago and currently seeking accreditation.
![Where are we as Black Catholics in the Canadian Church?](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/michaellapope.jpg)
Where are we as Black Catholics in the Canadian Church?
Tamika Royes on the struggle to reclaim a forgotten segment of Black history in North America.
![Fr Norman Fischer, president of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, dead at 50](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/normanfischer.jpg)
Fr Norman Fischer, president of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, dead at 50
The veteran priest, the first of African or Filipino descent in the Diocese of Lexington, passed away unexpectedly while in Delaware on sabbatical.
![Review: 'Inside Out 2' is a fun, not-too-emotional adventure](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/06/insideout2-1.jpeg)
Review: 'Inside Out 2' is a fun, not-too-emotional adventure
Samantha Smith calls the new Disney/Pixar flick a well-made sequel that strikes the right chords—emotional and otherwise.
![Webcomic highlights Black New Yorker who sparked fire in alleged 1741 Catholic revolt](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/06/kofimatch.png)
Webcomic highlights Black New Yorker who sparked fire in alleged 1741 Catholic revolt
"Kofi's Fire" recounts a supposed Catholic plot to end slavery in the British Colony of New York, and the momentous court trial that followed.
![How I became an angry Black Catholic](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/06/blackjesusstpius.png)
How I became an angry Black Catholic
Ralph E. Moore Jr. on his radical activism in 1971 at his home parish, St. Pius V in Baltimore, and the legacy of Black Catholic resistance.
![Interview: Gloria Purvis talks racism, resistance at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/1000005889.jpg)
Interview: Gloria Purvis talks racism, resistance at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress
She spoke with Briana Jansky following her keynote address on Saturday night in Indianapolis.
![No reparations, only separations: Baltimore Black Catholics punished yet again](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/Marlene-Watson-Baltimore-Maryland-Skyline-1.jpeg)
No reparations, only separations: Baltimore Black Catholics punished yet again
Ralph E. Moore Jr. laments the latest racial violence against those once subjected to explicit segregation in the nation's first Catholic diocese.
![Former President Donald Trump shot in Pennsylvania, Black Catholics react](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/trumpshot.jpg)
Former President Donald Trump shot in Pennsylvania, Black Catholics react
The presumptive GOP nominee and former president was grazed by a bullet during a campaign rally shooting that left two dead and three injured.
![The 'Call of the King' with Venerable Augustus Tolton](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/toltonsketch.jpg)
The 'Call of the King' with Venerable Augustus Tolton
Eric Styles meditates on the legacy of America's first openly Black Catholic priest with an Ignatian flair.
![Poem: ALTAR CALL](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/07/blackwomanpraying.jpeg)
Poem: ALTAR CALL
You call her down to the altar to pray for her while placing an A on her wardrobe. You see a sin that needs rectifying. An error in her ways and a light that is dying since she's alone, clutching a womb. She's in a room
![Poem: PEACE ON EARTH, LET THE ROOSTER CROW](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/03/peace.jpeg)
Poem: PEACE ON EARTH, LET THE ROOSTER CROW
Oh Lord, let us repent from sin. We are plagued by temptation every single day. Some days are bright, and some are dark and dreary. It seems like fog settles over the land. As the rooster crows. Because even the rooster knows the time is not right. When the time
![Poem: 'NEW BEGINNINGS,
PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND.'](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2024/02/1000008671.jpg)
Poem: 'NEW BEGINNINGS, PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND.'
The world is a tinder box of matches. The fire is burning strong. As you watch it crackle and burn. You must pause and wonder. When did the fire begin? It seems that there is a new beginning. But there is no peace for all mankind. Listen to the distant
![Poem: DISBELIEF NO MORE](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2023/12/rosary-catholic-prayer.jpg.jpg)
Poem: DISBELIEF NO MORE
I declare that Thou, Who thy can thinly see Is illogically the source of my belief And not my DISBELIEF. My eyes fool me so Because it is in your full vision that I desire to go. Thank You that you are good and forgiving Despite my misgivings. Inexpressible are
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![Bishop Joseph Perry of Chicago retires, widening Black episcopal void](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2023/09/perrymospeech.jpg)
Bishop Joseph Perry of Chicago retires, widening Black episcopal void
With the retirement of the 75-year-old prelate, there remain only four active African-American Catholic bishops, three of whom were born in the U.S.
![I left the monastery—but I'm still discerning.](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2023/07/malikovid.png)
I left the monastery—but I'm still discerning.
A letter from a young Black Catholic seminarian in Seattle explains his discernment of the priesthood, call to religious life, and how he's figuring it all out.
![Remembering Mother Wilhelmina, the teacher](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/2023/06/wilhelminaclass.jpg)
Remembering Mother Wilhelmina, the teacher
Ralph Moore Jr. reflects on his time as a student of a late Black nun currently making waves in rural Missouri.