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(OSV News) — A New Orleans genealogist has found that the first U.S.-born pope has Black and Creole roots — and the discovery illuminates the nation’s rich multiracial history, the experience of Black Catholics and the importance of the church’s sacramental records. Jari Honora, a certified genealogist and a family historian for the Historic New […]
Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict.Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order who spent his career ministering in Peru, took the name Leo XIV.Leo celebrates his […]
The clergy abuse survivor who effectively ignited the US Catholic church’s reckoning with clerical molestation when – at age 11 – he testified in the 1980s that his priest had raped him was recently beaten to death in south-west Louisiana. Scott Anthony Gastal, whose later . . .
Cardinal Wilton Gregory, apostolic administrator of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, serves as the guest homilist for the Archdiocese of Newark’s commemorative Black History Month Mass celebrated by Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, archbishop of Newark, on Feb. 16 at Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. (Archdiocese of Newark photo by Julio Eduardo Herrera) […]
OAK PARK, Ill. (WLS) — An Oak Park church is honoring the life and legacy of a former Chicago priest during Black History Month. Father Augustus Tolton was the first Black Catholic priest in the United States. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch
Vice President JD Vance blasted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemnation of the Trump administration’s recent actions on immigration, saying the church might be more concerned with “their bottom line” than humanitarian causes. On “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” the Vice President, in . . .
Less than 24 hours after her cesarean section on April 30th at a government-run teaching hospital in Oron, a coastal community of Akwa Ibom in Nigeria, 24-year-old Gift Bassey-Eyo discovered she had developed a vesicovaginal fistula (VVF), a serious childbirth injury which creates a hole between the birth canal and bladder. VVF is caused by […]
Typically, how a person votes, what motivates their vote, and assumptions about voters can be uncertain pursuits. In the case of our recent election, however, there are some issues that must be discussed. As an African American, I found the comments, behavior, allegations, policies and platform of the president-elect and his vice president to be […]
Donald Trump laid into Kamala Harris and other Democrats on Thursday in a pointed and at times bitter speech as he headlined the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York. The
Abortion pills from Mexico and India are easily available in states where abortion is illegal or heavily regulated, a new report from a pro-life group says. The report, issued by American Life League, says anyone in the United States can order abortion pills online with no medical supervision, and that federal agencies have shown no […]