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THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS: RECLAIMING THE (NORTH AFRICAN) CHURCH FATHERS

Growing up in a black Baptist community, I didn’t hear much (if at all) about the Church Fathers. However, during seminary, I realized that their influence was felt implicitly in the confessions we affirmed, hymns that we sang, the sermons preached, and the doctrines taught during Sunday school or new members’ class. Despite our general …

On the Road to Sainthood

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Sainthood causes draw focus to black Catholics and need for justice

Pope Francis declared on June 11 that Fr. Augustus Tolton, the first African-American Catholic priest, lived a life of heroic virtue, a move that put a man who’d been born a slave one miracle away from being declared Blessed, the step before official sainthood. As Tolton (1854-1897) joins the dozen or so U.S. sainthood causes …

Bernard Quinn Cause for Canonization

Servant of God Msgr. Bernard John Quinn (1888 – 1940) Cause for Canonization

List of Holy Men and Women of African Ancestry

Of the Catholic Church’s more than 4,500 saints, about two dozen generally are recognized as being of African origin or ancestry. Catholic Online Saints (http://saints.catholic.org) lists these black saints: Read more