Venerable Augustus Tolton. / Credit: Public domain
CNA Staff, Jun 19, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
On June 19, the United States commemorates the anniversary of the 1865 order that gave freedom to enslaved African Americans in Texas, issued two month… […]
Sister Thea Bowman (Courtesy of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration) and Venerable Augustus Tolton / Credit: New York Public Library
CNA Staff, Nov 6, 2023 / 10:15 am (CNA).
Arlington, Virginia, Bishop Michael Burbidge is urging Cath… […]
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… […]
Father Augustus Tolton’s life was explored in an October 2022 episode of EWTN’s “They Might Be Saints.” / EWTN News Nightly
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 6, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Despite living through the societal oppressions of racism and d… […]
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Denver Newsroom, Aug 13, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Among the many Black men and women who have been declared saints in the Catholic Church, not one of them — yet — has been American. But that does not me… […]
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