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Black Catholic history is for everyone, Catholic educator says

February 12, 2024 Catholic News Agency 13

Venerable Augustus Tolton. / Credit: New York Public Library

CNA Staff, Feb 12, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).
A Catholic educator from Texas says teaching students about Black Catholic saints and other holy men and women of color “gives not only repre… […]

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Meet the 6 American Black Catholics who are on the road to sainthood

February 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency, Jim Graves 4

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

Newport Beach, California, Feb 28, 2023 / 12:55 pm (CNA).
Among the history revisited for Black History Mont… […]

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Servant of God Mother Mary Lange and the rich history of Black Catholic religious orders

February 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Sister Brenda Cherry (right) attests to the long legacy of teaching by the Oblate Sisters of Providence. / Credit: Oblate Sisters of Providence Archives

Newport Beach, California, Feb 28, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).
Two centuries ago, Mary Elizabeth… […]

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Black Catholic journalist Daniel Rudd was born a slave. He left a legacy.

February 25, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Daniel Rudd, ca. 1915. / Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. Central Arkansas Library System (public domain)

Denver Newsroom, Feb 25, 2022 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
In the wake of the American Civil War, the former slave Daniel Rudd launched a newspape… […]

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