Bishop Healy News Today

WESTWOOD -- For the first time in three years, the Bishop James Augustine Healy Award Dinner was able to take place in person on Nov. 12 at St. Margaret Mary Parish in Westwood, giving members and friends of the Black Catholic community the chance to gather in fellowship and honor their past and present leaders.

The Tablet February 17, 2021 Bishop James Augustine Healy, born 1830, is the first bishop of African-American heritage in the U.S. During his 25 years leading the Diocese of Portland, Maine, he built 60 new churches, 68 missions, 18 convents, and 18 schools. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) WINDSOR TERRACE — Anthropologist Tom Riley did not understand why his grandmother, in the mid 1950s, resisted an interview with a priest working on a biography of the family’s famous ancestor, Bishop Ja...