As a Black Catholic, I believe faith belongs in the fight for a more sustainable future.
Leonard Robinson on the challenges facing religious activism in environmental spaces and how inclusive collaboration is key to the green movement.
Justice
Why this Black Catholic thinks Bishop Robert Barron was wrong to defend President Trump
Daryl Grigsby on the contradictions of a talkative American prelate who doesn't have much to say on the divisive Republican in the White House.
'Providential': Black Catholics react to Pope Leo XIV, the Creole
The former Robert Prevost is now known to be of African ancestry, part of a growing picture Americans are forming of the new supreme pontiff.
Review: Dr. Ansel Augustine's book 'Praying with Our Feet' is a powerful call to action
Rana Irby takes on the new text covering the need for Catholic faith in action in the modern age.
Goodbye, Francis, pope of mercy
Tamika Royes remembers the pontiff who inspired her to embrace her Catholic spirituality as faith demanding justice and outreach.
Pope Francis, Latin American pontiff of the poor, dead at 88
The globe-trotting Argentinian prelate was a force in the Catholic Church, to which he dedicated seven decades as a student, shepherd, and servant.
Why Black Catholics have stayed despite every reason to leave
Tamika Royes on the mercy of God in the experience of Black Catholics who choose to stay—even when suffering abounds at the hands of the Church.
Review: 'Catholics for the Common Good' is Catholic social teaching in lived experience
Lori Stanley reviews the latest book from Daryl Grigsby, on the lives of three dozen modern Catholics embodying faith in action.
'God is present among the poor': Society of St. Vincent de Paul opens advocacy office in Washington
The new hub on Capitol Hill will serve the Catholic poverty relief organization's lobbying work to the nation's federal legislators.
Government executives are shepherds. Are they up for the challenge?
Alexander Walton on the parallels between leadership in ancient Israel and the need for a pastoral approach in modern civil administration.
Palestinian 'Christ in the Rubble' pastor launches book with Cori Bush, Rep. Rashida Tlaib in Washington
Rev. Munther Isaac's new book, inspired by his church's viral 2023 Nativity scene in the West Bank, was released in late March.
Danielle Brown resigns as director of U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism
The Michigan-born attorney and former judge had served at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops since 2018 and left quietly in January.
Black Catholic books of note (2025 edition)
A sampling of new and upcoming texts written by Black Catholics in the past year.
Racism and abuse have devastated U.S. Catholicism. Is there a way forward?
Alessandra Harris surveys various eras of Church history where human dignity was cast aside, and envisions a new dawn where healing can flourish.
This Black History Month, I wonder: Why are we still comparing civil rights and abortion?
Daryl Grigsby on the false equivalencies finding oxygen due to actions from a nascent Trump administration bent on anything but racial justice.
The president has a sworn duty to protect the marginalized. It's downright Biblical.
Alexander Walton on the Biblical injunction for rulers and the temptations of greed and power at the highest echelons of society.