Black Catholics seek worship spaces free of racism
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — When Joseph Geeter retired from the U.S. Marine Corps and moved to...
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PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — When Joseph Geeter retired from the U.S. Marine Corps and moved to...
The share of black Americans who were raised as Catholics and remain Catholics is lower than those of Hispanic and white Catholics
As Black Catholics confront racism in the church and in American society, they also encounter it at predominantly white parishes in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, and seek to worship with other Catholics
Bishop Braxton says the Catholic Church and its institutions have helped perpetuate the problem
The divide of which racism is the most egregious example includes injustices throughout American history to the present, said retired Bishop Edward Braxton, who supports reparations for Black people for as a means of