Despite immigration defense, U.S. Catholic bishops falter on clarity at 2025 fall assembly
Nate Tinner-Williams on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual fall meeting and the U.S. episcopacy's troubled sociopolitical moment.
Government
Setti Warren, first Black mayor elected in Massachusetts, laid to rest in Newton
The devout Black Catholic—a lifelong public servant, Navy veteran, and Harvard official—died suddenly earlier this month at 55 years old.
Black Catholic activist launches Senate campaign to unseat Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
63-year-old Catherine Fleming Bruce is challenging GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, honing in on affordability and the policies of President Trump.
Black Catholics center stage in 2025 election victories
Jay Jones weathered an October scandal in his bid for Virginia attorney general, while Amanda Edwards' long quest for Congress lives on in Texas.
SNAP food assistance program to lapse for first time ever, Catholic leaders respond
As the federal shutdown enters its fifth week, roughly 42 million Americans could soon be without grocery funds from a government at a standstill.
'Early stages of dementia': Police report on 88-year-old House Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
The congresswoman was scammed out of thousands this month and is believed to be suffering from dementia as she seeks her 19th term in office.
President Jimmy Carter's grandson endorses Jason Esteves in Georgia governor's race
The announcement comes as the young Black Catholic ramps up his campaign and messaging for next May's increasingly crowded Democratic primary.
Texas' Black Catholic-heavy special election for Congress is largely mum on Israel
Voters for the US House's vacant 18th district seat must parse candidates—several of them Black Catholics—who have largely avoided the Gaza issue.
Virginia Democrat calls for Jay Jones to end attorney general campaign over violent text messages
A bipartisan chorus has condemned the Black Catholic candidate's former support for violence against former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert.
Robert White Jr. to run for Congress against an aging Eleanor Holmes Norton
The 43-year-old D.C. Council member says he is running against his former mentor to bring hope to D.C. residents living in fear and uncertainty.
Cardinal Dolan, can an unrepentant racist really be a saint?
Daryl Grigsby on the prominent Catholic prelate's likening of the late Charlie Kirk, an unabashed racist Republican, to St. Paul the Apostle.
Assata Shakur, famed Black revolutionary and erstwhile political prisoner, dead at 78
The African-American Catholic convert was convicted on trumped-up murder charges in 1977 following a N.J. shootout, before escaping prison to Cuba.
Can Catholics vote for Zohran Mamdani?
Félix Cepeda gives a justice-informed take on the surging socialist who may soon be headed to City Hall in the Big Apple.
Black prelate's essay on DEI deleted by U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr. of Washington
New Orleans mayor, former bodyguard plead not guilty to federal charges linked to affair
The pair allegedly conspired to fund an affair on the city's dime and covered it up by means of deleted messages, perjury, and public retaliation.
The harrowing spiritual implications of a bishop with selective memory
Tulio Huggins examines the death of Charlie Kirk and the importance of measured responses, in light of the late activist's immoral public persona.