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Children Build the Future

February 9, 2025
Our children need us to help them become the people we imagine when we dream of their future.
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Our Church Is God’s Church

February 2, 2025
Our Church is God’s Church, and we belong to God. Church is the place we go to nurture our faith.
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Go to the Margins

February 1, 2025
To truly be one body of Christ does not mean for everyone to be the same, but rather to be welcoming of all experiences and expressions of the Catholic faith.
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The Gift of Diversity: Celebrating the Spiritual Gifts of Black Catholics

January 25, 2024
Black Catholics have long struggled with the evil of racism both within and outside the Church in the United States. A prominent African American Catholic author and activist reflects on how diversity brings about both healing and a richer faith.  
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Portraits of six African Americans who are sainthood candidates are displayed in the lobby of the Catholic Center in Baltimore in November 2023 for Black Catholic History Month.

Group Visits Vatican Officials, Advocates for Canonization of Black Catholics

December 5, 2023
When three members of St. Ann Parish in East Baltimore sat down with leaders of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican in late October to advocate for sainthood for six Black potential saints from the United ...
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‘The church needs our gifts’: Black Catholics at national congress reflect on their calling 

July 28, 2023
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (OSV News) — As people left the July 23 closing Mass for the National Black Catholic Congress, Vernon Taylor of St. Joseph’s Parish in Wilmington, Delaware, said he was moved particularly at the end of Mass when ...
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