and this is what drew her to the Catholic Church. At the age of 15, she told her family she wanted to join the Franciscan ...

I also wanted them to develop the skill of interviewing for historical purposes and to learn to use interviews as historical sources. In my own work in African American Catholic history, interviews ...

November is National Black Catholic History Month in the United ... life to improving the welfare of her community, especially African Americans who were currently or formerly enslaved.

That program allows Black Catholic leaders to “share Black Catholic viewpoints among ourselves and with the hierarchy, ...

The longtime administrator departed the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in April as the highest-ranking lay African American in the Catholic Church. Ralph E. Moore Jr. says this year should be ...

The closure of St. Ann’s Catholic Church has hit members of the predominantly Black congregation hard, including Ralph Moore, ...

If elevated to sainthood, he would become the seventh Black figure and most recent African American to receive the honor. According to the National Catholic Register, Ward was born in 1918 as ...

Ralph Moore Jr. shares his reasons for leaving the Catholic Church after decades of membership, citing its lack of progress on inclusion and social justice.

African Catholic leaders have announced that they will not be abiding by Pope Francis’s recent approval of same-sex blessings. Pope Francis announced in December that same-sex couples could be ...

But he has spent much of the past eight months helping lead a transition team for the new parish, and he remains hopeful it will serve as a bulwark for African American Catholics and others in ...