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In the wake of the ongoing racial violence against people of color, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called on each and every Catholic to pray and fast for an end to racism. Bishop Shelton J. Fabre, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, reiterated the value of those …
Father Alonzo Cox offers an impassioned homily, on Pentecost Sunday 2020, concerning the recent events in the United States – we are living COVID-19 and days after the death of George Floyd.
https://thetablet.org/priest-helps-african-americans-covid-19/
Joining Currents News to reflect on that milestone — and why Dr. King’s message is so important to the values of all Catholics — is Father Alonzo Cox, pastor of Saint Martin de Porres Parish and coordinator of the Brooklyn Vicariate for Black Catholic Concerns. See More….
FLATBUSH — Whenever Shaniqua Wilson brings The Voices of Praise Ensemble or Ecclesia Dance Ministry to Mass, she inevitably gets asked, “Are they Catholic?” The Gospel choir-like singing strikes people as out of place in a Catholic church, and liturgical dance is unfamiliar to many. But Wilson said the groups that led the faithful in …
At the annual Black History Month Mass held at Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston Feb. 17, nearly 40 minutes of poignant preaching set the tone for a liturgy that offered words of healing for the suffering caused by the sins of racism and words of hope as the plight toward racial equality in America continues. …
Holy Scripture boldly proclaims, “See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are” (1 Jn 3:1). This love “comes from God and unites us to God; through this unifying process it makes us a ‘we’ which transcends our divisions and makes us …