Sisters of Charity Federation acknowledges slaveholding in new statement
14 congregations of women religious in the US have newly detailed their connection to the enslavement—and, at times, the selling—of African Americans in the 1800s.
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America's Black Holocaust Museum, founded in Milwaukee by a Catholic, reopening physically after 13 years
The nation's only major museum dedicated to the experience of anti-Blackness in America is returning to in-person status after more than a decade of financial struggle.
Cardinal Wilton Gregory and Sr Helen Prejean to host death penalty webinar Tuesday
As the death penalty continues to wreak havoc at the state level, two prominent abolition advocates in the Church will host a dialogue on Tuesday.
Knights of Peter Claver hosting webinar today on human trafficking
The nation's Black Catholic fraternal order is again revisiting the invisible pandemic of human trafficking, with an event today featuring experts in Los Angeles.
Opinion: The Catholic Church is covering up anti-Black racism
BCM editor Nate Tinner-Williams gives his take on abuse, racism, and the upcoming 2023 Synod of Bishops.
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: We should celebrate Kwanzaa. (The Bible tells us so.)
Fr Nnaemeka Ali, OMI continues his discussion of Kwanzaa, arguing that it makes Biblical sense to join in the cultural celebrations of the marginalized.
Cardinal Gregory returns to Today Show for Christmas interview
The nation's African-American cardinal appeared today on the weekend edition of the popular morning show for a discussion on Christmas, COVID, and faithful fellowship.
Opinion: Advent means waiting, suffering with hope
Missy Enaje reflects on how the Christmas season invites us to joy in the face of suffering and the yet-to-be-fulfilled promises of God.
Knights of Peter Claver hosting virtual Kwanzaa event December 29th
The nation's largest and oldest Black Catholic organization is hosting a Kwanzaa event commemorating innocent Black lives lost due to racism.
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.
Reflection: Rwandan martyrs Cyprien and Daphrose Rugamba modeled pacifism, prayer
A devout Catholic couple and several of their children were among the victims of the Rwandan Genocide. Nancy Saro reflects on their witness as their canonization cause advances.
Opinion: Climate change is a Black Catholic issue, too
Ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Alessandra Harris argues that climate change is a matter of racism, faith, and action.
Interview: Fr Amado Picardal, CSsR, faithful witness amidst state violence in the Philippines
Zuri Davis shares an interview from 2019 with a peaceful freedom fighter overseas who is also a Redemptorist priest and hermit.
Statement from the National Association of Black Catholic Administrators on abuse of Haitian migrants
The nation's diocesan Black Catholic ministry directors lament the ongoing border crisis with Haitian migrants, and the dehumanizing response.
'A betrayal': Black Catholic head of National Urban League blasts Republican lawmakers for opposition to police reform act
The head of a leading civil rights organization has called the news of yet another dead police reform bill "unacceptable", as Congress continues to stall.