St. Columbanus at 71st and Prairie on the South Side of Chicago was my grandmother’s parish for nearly 50 years. One of many Black Catholic parishes in...
Black Catholics
Explore stories, voices, and perspectives from Black Catholics, highlighting faith, culture, justice, and the ongoing work toward racial equity in the church.
A breeze of community drifted through the room, enough to clear the auditorium’s often stifling pre-movie silence. Everyone who came for the screening of...
“O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.” • Psalm 96:1 Melisma Melisma is a vocal technique that involves sliding through various notes...
“As a Black woman who has been a member of the Catholic Church all of her life, it never occurred to me while growing up that being both Black and Catholic was...
What does it mean to be Black and Catholic? It means that I come to my church fully functioning; that doesn’t frighten you, does it? It means that… I bring...
For many Black Catholic communities in the United States, Pope Francis’ life and legacy, as someone who lived out an ethic of “all are welcome,” is “exactly...
As a former user of natural family planning (NFP) with my wife, I’ve never given National NFP Awareness Week serious attention. But with the Dobbs decision...
My podcast cohost, Marcia, is a huge Swiftie—she knows every word to every Taylor Swift song, the hidden messages in each album, and which periods of Taylor’s...
St. Augustine was an African man. For many years, I didn’t appreciate the magnitude of this because his African identity was usually muted in favor of...
When remembering the revolutionary period in American history known as the civil rights movement—a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign that...
