Pope Leo XIV’s Creole and African ancestry, traced to Louisiana and West Africa, is prompting celebration and curiosity among ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared that the black race is not lazy but composed of honest and hardworking people who, when given the right opportunities, can excel and thrive globally. He made ...

When the Rev. Matthew Baum attended Johnstown’s Juneteenth activities recently, he was on a multi-layered mission. Baum, rector at St. John Gualbert Cathedral and St. Patrick Catholic Church, both in ...

Recording artist Dr. ValLimar Jansen wears an American flag-patterned scarf as she uses storytelling to talk about freedom ...

The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered ...

As Pope Leo XIV settles into his papacy, the three million U.S. Black Catholics contemplate its deeper meaning, as questions linger about his ethnic heritage. Get daily updates on ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — There was a buzz of energy in All Saints Church on Saturday, April 13. Rather than customary Catholic hymns, the choir kicked off the Convocation of Catholics of African Descent ...

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle Shannen Dee Williams. Duke Univ, $29.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-47801-820-9 ...

While there are already numerous Black canonized saints in the Catholic Church — such as St. Martin de Porres, St. Josephine Bakhita, and St. Augustine — none have yet been African-American ...

Even as a young adult, Shannen Dee Williams – who grew up Black and Catholic in Memphis, Tennessee – knew of only one Black nun, and a fake one at that: Sister Mary Clarence, as played by Whoopi ...