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Black History Month

Father Augustus Tolton. | Credit: Public Domain/Wikipedia

Black Catholic History is for Everyone, Catholic Educator Says

Feb 12, 2024

“Being Catholic is an overarching, cross-racial identity. There is no outgroup in the Catholic Church,” said Kaye Crawford, who founded Black Catholic History. 

Sister Thea Bowman and Venerable Augustus Tolton. | Courtesy of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration / New York Public Library

Meet the 6 American Black Catholics who are on the Road to Sainthood

Feb 28, 2023

Among the history revisited for Black History Month, Catholics would do well to recall that there are currently six African American Catholics who are on the path to sainthood.

Servant of God Mother Mary Lange and the Rich History of Black Catholic Religious Orders

Feb 28, 2023

Two centuries ago, Mary Elizabeth Lange (1789-1882) emigrated to the United States from Cuba and joined a friend to offer free education to Baltimore’s Black children. With the support of Baltimore Archbishop James Whitfield, she founded a school for “girls of color” and then the Oblate Sisters of Providence, a religious community for women of African descent. The cause for Mother Mary Lange’s canonization was introduced by Baltimore Cardinal William Keeler in 1991, and as a “Servant of God,” she has begun the first step on the road to canonization.