The U.S. Catholic Church has a painful history of racism. One step toward healing could be canonization of the six African ...

November is National Black Catholic History Month in the United ... life to improving the welfare of her community, especially African Americans who were currently or formerly enslaved.

Ignored advocacy efforts for the canonization of African-American saints reveal a deeper neglect ... The intertwined nature ...

If elevated to sainthood, he would become the seventh Black figure and most recent African American to receive the honor. According to the National Catholic ... the Causes of Saints,” McMillan ...

Saint Moses, who is also called Moses the Black, was a slave, but because of his evil life, his master cast him out, and he became a ruthless thief, dissolute in all his ways. Later, however, coming ...

Father Gus Taylor, a U.S. priest who was key in several prominent 20th-century Black Catholic initiatives, passed away last month at 85. Taylor died in Los Angeles from unspecified causes on Nov.