Xavier University of Louisiana launching NAIA soccer in 2023
After a 16-year absence, intercollegiate soccer is returning to New Orleans at the hands of the nation's Catholic HBCU.
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Reflection: How a Black Catholic nun and saint-to-be inspires this lay minister
Vickie Figueroa, a Black Catholic ministry director in Detroit, reflects on how Servant of God Thea Bowman inspires her ministry.
Interview: Dr. Vincent W. Lloyd, on his new book 'Black Dignity'
A Black professor from Villanova has a new book out on Black philosophical underpinnings in the modern struggle for justice. Nate TInner-Williams interviews.
Georgetown Reconciliation Fund will award $400,000 annually to benefit descendants of Jesuit slaves
A top-ranked Catholic university has announced plans to award grants annually to atone for its participation in slavery.
Dr. James E. Moore Jr., 'Taste and See' hymnwriter, to be remembered with Memorial Mass on Sunday in Cincinnati
A notable Black Catholic liturgist who died overseas earlier this year will be memorialized Sunday in Ohio at his former parish.
Dr. Imani Perry, John Keene win at 2022 National Book Awards
African Americans won two out of the five top prizes in the National Book Awards this year. Both were raised Catholic.
Catholics should be prison abolitionists
Efran Menny reflects on the call of transformative justice, and the need for Catholics to treat seriously the prospect of prison abolition.
Opinion: Masks off at US Catholic bishops' meeting in Baltimore
The USCCB's annual fall assembly in Baltimore was a roller coaster of messaging from brazenly anti-Francis to performatively aligned, Nate Tinner-Williams opines.
2023 Grammy nominations include diverse crop of Black Catholics
Next year's Grammy Awards have the potential to make history for at least one Catholic-raised African American, and various others are also up for recognition.
Bishop Edward Braxton's keynote for National Association of Black Catholic Administrators' annual meeting
Transcript from a retired Black Catholic bishop's address to the nation's Black Catholic diocesan officials and other leaders earlier this fall in Texas.
US Catholic bishops' 1968 statement on the 'National Race Crisis'
A 54-year-old statement from the nation's Catholic prelates on racism, protest, and social action reveals perspectives that may surprise some—and galvanize others.
Sr Doris Goudeaux, SSF, promoter of Venerable Henriette DeLille, dead at 91
A Black nun and former co-director of canonization efforts for her order's foundress, Venerable Henriette DeLille, has died in New Orleans.
A tribute to 'Old Gilbert', a founding Knight of Peter Claver
Historian Jari C. Honora fetes Gilbert Faustina, the first Supreme Knight of the nation's premier Black Catholic fraternal order.
Reflection: Dr. Shawnee Daniels-Sykes, pioneer of Black Catholic womanist ethics, dead at 61
The nation's only Black Catholic female bioethicist has died at the age of 61 following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Nate Tinner-Williams reflects.
Black Catholics in Congress (2022 edition)
Black Catholics are increasingly elusive in Congress, and the 2022 midterms are bringing more of the same. Even so, things are somewhat complicated. Nate Tinner-Williams explains.
Reward offered in shooting of Black Catholic school students in Chicago
Three young brothers were shot over the weekend in Chicago. Their parish is offering a cash reward for information leading to an arrest.