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The history of Black Catholics and other marginalized people in the U.S. church covering more than two centuries is one worth knowing and can ...

The book, "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families," is at once both stunning and horrifying. Searching for something to read, I picked up this 1998 bestseller at my daughter's house. But I paused. Was the story of Rwandan genocide relevant or was it ancient history? Then I remembered William Faulkner's famous statement, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

Cody Purcell travelled 600 kilometres to a North Shore residential school “to look the evil in the eye.”

The Black priest had initially been turned away from seminaries because of his race. He professed first vows as a Franciscan in 1950 but was not ordained until 1975.