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...
Black Catholics
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...
When Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field during the January 2 Monday Night Football game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals, it felt like...
Ansel Augustine is director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. “Can the church we love, love us back?” asks Ansel...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify When we talk about the global history of Catholicism, we may be tempted to portray the church as the unequivocal moral hero...
“What does it mean to be Black and Catholic?” asked Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration Thea Bowman. “It means that I come to my church fully functioning...
“I remember when . . .” When I was a child, my grandmother began each story with these words. Her stories about the past taught me lessons for my own life...
Historian Shannen Dee Williams had never seen a Black nun until she stumbled across a 1968 news story about the founding of the National Black Sisters’...
The past two years have been exceptional years of human existence. Here in the United States, while we were trying to survive and resolve a world pandemic...
