The Witness of Sr. Thea Bowman

Gift and Challenge to the Church Arguably no person in recent memory did more to resist and transform the sad legacy of segregation and racism in the Catholic Church than Thea Bowman of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, a scholar and public speaker who inspired millions with her singing and message of God’s love …

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A True Mother of God’s Forgotten Children

The following is adopted from the bios of Mother Lange from the Oblate Sisters of Providence (OS), her Cause’s website (C), and her Wikipedia page (Wiki). I mixed them altogether from the best details they each had about her life to form a streamline of information.   Read on…

Haiti gave us Mother Mary Lange

Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted…” (Mt 5:3-5) reverberates in my head as the world looks on in stunned horror and sadness at the aftermath of a devastating earthquake on the island of Haiti. Millions have been affected …

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What does it Mean to be Black and Catholic

What does it mean to be black & Catholic? It means I come to my Church, FULLY FUNCTIONING. That doesn’t frighten you does it? I come to my Church fully functioning, I bring myself; my black self. All that I am. All that I have. All that I hope to become. My traditions, my experience, …

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