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

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 ...

Together with her order, she founded New Orleans’ Xavier University, the only historically Black U.S. Catholic college. She was canonized a saint in 2000. (Story continues below) ...

H.R. 1114, the Haitian American Enterprise Fund 2025, proposes a $5 billion investment to revitalize Haiti’s economy—an effort that would also benefit Baltimore through strengthened trade and historic ...

Father Tolton is recognized as the first black priest in the United States and the Cause for his beatification and ...

Rome Newsroom, 29 June, 2025 / 12:50 pm (ACI Africa). Pope Leo XIV warned new archbishops ... Speaking on the Solemnity of Peter and Paul — saints recognized by the Catholic Church as pillars of the ...

The latest work by renowned historian Diarmaid MacCulloch tackles Christian attitudes to sex over the centuries. Modern-day Christians who talk about traditional values usually don’t know how ...

Victor Mooney's latest advocacy trek included Catholic shrines and former concentration camps in Poland before a surprise ...

Alvina Reynolds, president of the Saint Lucian senate, says historical records show that most of the African slaves brought ...

The Rev. Dr. Brown explained in a 2019 Church News video that “Come, Come Ye Saints” and the iconic Black spiritual “Lift ...

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

A Wednesday night pilgrimage procession will commemorate the 128th anniversary of the death of Father Augustine Tolton, the ...