Oblate Sisters to commemorate reinterment of Servant of God Mary Lange on June 3
The remains of the venerated Black Catholic foundress were canonically transferred to her order's motherhouse in 2013.
Death
The power of death and the power of God
A pastoral reflection from Fr Stephan Brown, SVD on this week's gospel reading: the raising of Lazarus.
Reflection: The life and afterlife of Claude Newman, Black death row inmate who saw the Blessed Virgin
Marian apparitions in the United States are all but non-existent, but one Black Mississippian born this day in 1923 may have broken the mold. Nate Tinner-Williams explores.
Cardinal Wilton Gregory to receive award for anti-death penalty advocacy
The nation's Black cardinal, known for his longtime advocacy against the death penalty, will receive an award this October for his activism.
Catholic Mobilizing Network holding poetry contest for young adults against capital punishment
A new poetry competition will award $1000 to a young adult Catholic expressing their opposition to the death penalty in verse. Deadline May 31st.
In Memoriam: A powerful letter from a dying Black priest to his doctor
Reprint of a defiantly hopeful (and staunchly Catholic) letter from a Black priest in DC, who passed in 2009 from cancer.
Opinion: Finding meaning through grief
Amidst a global pandemic, Efran Menny reflects on a past experience with death, grief, and new paths of healing and accompaniment.