From Lexington to Jamaica with love: Serving the differently abled with Mustard Seed Communities
A return mission trip to a unique Catholic ministry in the Caribbean brought love and joy to a priest from Kentucky who shared his story with BCM.
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Catholic discernment while Black: When the call comes through dismay
Fabian Adderley explains how the call to service in the Church is uniquely experienced in Black life, especially through the lens of hardship.
'As long as the Lord gives me strength': Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr. of Washington on continued ministry and the fight for justice and diversity
WASHINGTON — Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell, Jr., the nation’s most senior African-American Catholic active prelate and an advocate against injustice, says his ministry beyond the normal episcopal retirement age is one of speaking truth, remembering the forgotten, and advocating for Black Catholics. The 78-year-old prelate has served in Washington
Just enough is not enough: A Black Catholic History Month reflection
James Conway on the contradictions of neutered Black Catholic faith and the change that must soon come in order for the movement to survive.
It's time to wake up: The Catholic Church needs women deacons now.
Daryl Grigsby on the burning need for ordained female ministry to honor Christian tradition and enliven a stagnant, monolithic permanent diaconate.
Podcast: Fr Samuel Davis and the Black witness in Eastern Orthodoxy
One of the Greek Orthodox Church's African-American priests joins Eric Styles and Nate Tinner-Williams to discuss evangelization and ecumenism.
Dr. Cynthia Bailey Manns to lead virtual celebration for feast of St. Mary Magdalene
The annual Boston College event aims to recover the history of the "apostle to the apostles" and inspire continued witness by modern Catholic women.
Gala will honor Servant of God Bernard Quinn, priest who served Brooklyn African Americans
The event will raise funds for the sainthood cause of the late Irish American, who founded ministries for the Black community of New York City.
Amid conclave, Black Catholic theologians remember Pope Francis, look to future
Drs. Kathleen Dorsey Bellow and Andrew Prevot give perspective as cardinals select a new pope to lead the worldwide Catholic Church.
Home again: On Catholic burnout and the journey of challenged faith
Sara Chinakwe narrates her journey away from the Church and back again, fueled by a pursuit of authentic encounter with God.
Martin Luther King and the Black Social Gospel
Daryl Grigsby on the sociotheological currents underlying America's most impactful religious thinker, and his allies in the fight for justice.
Has the Catholic Church truly learned hospitality?
Tamika Royes on the "Black exodus" and how to foster the welcome that all deserve in God's house.
'Seeking for a City' Black Catholic academic symposium connects histories, dreams new futures
The event marked twin anniversaries for African Americans in the Church, while looking forward to the future of ethnic expression and liberation.
In Canada and beyond, are Black women seen and heard in the Catholic Church?
Tamika Royes reflects on a pressing (and international) question in the search for egalitarian recognition.
Fr Gustavo Gutiérrez, father of liberation theology, dead at 96
Once accused of ties to Marxism, the Peruvian Catholic priest is regarded as one of the most influential religious thinkers of the 20th century.
As Synod on Synodality nears close, leaders keep women's ordination at arm's length
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the Vatican's doctrine czar, spoke to delegates Monday after his absence from a synod event on the topic last week.