'Historic ordination': Fr Patrick Winbush, OSB raised to the priesthood in Newark
The 42-year-old Benedictine monk is the first African American ordained in Newark in more than 20 years.
The 42-year-old Benedictine monk is the first African American ordained in Newark in more than 20 years.
The historic religious society is celebrating 130 years this year and preparing for ordinations, first professions, and a general conference in June.
The 42-year-old monk is one of three African Americans being ordained in the Catholic Church this year.
The 75-year-old prelate concelebrated the Mass with eight members of his ordination class from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Illinois.
Sr Mary Francis Bard, SSF, will serve as the guest speaker for the annual virtual event.
The man of the hour: Dom Chrysostom Christie-Searles, OSB, a Chicago native who first entered the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in 2017.
A Brazilian former seminarian who studied under an African-American priest now considered for canonization explains why he thinks his former mentor is worthy of the altars.
The nation's oldest Catholic deacon, an African-American transplant from New Orleans to Los Angeles, will be funeralized in California on Saturday.
The nation's premier Black Catholic fraternal order has partnered anew with the religious society that founded them, creating a council at their seminary in DC.
Historian Jari C. Honora fetes Gilbert Faustina, the first Supreme Knight of the nation's premier Black Catholic fraternal order.
The first integrated Catholic seminary in 20th-century America is not well known, but that's what Black Catholic History Month is for. Read on.
Later this year, the Josephites will ordain three Nigerians to the transitional diaconate later this year, while an American will complete his journey to religious brotherhood.
A Black Catholic clergy group in Atlanta is organizing an event later this month honoring retired members, including history-making priests and deacons.
Buffalo native Edwan "Manie" Manuel, SVD has completed one of the last steps in his seminary formation, ahead of his diaconate ordination next month.
The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, founded by St Katharine Drexel, have elected an African-American president for the second time in history. She spoke with BCM on their mission in the modern world.
Today in New Orleans, an African-American convert will become a full member of the nation's second-oldest order of Black nuns, founded in 1837 by Venerable Henriette DeLille.