The full speakers list is out for the Nov. Black Catholic academic symposium in Ohio, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Black Catholic bishops' letter "What We Have Seen and Heard" and the 20th death anniversary of the liturgist Fr Clarence Rivers. https://buff.ly/3Y2Ihv4
This week's Synod on Synodality meetings are underway here at the Vatican. Prayer service now, followed by a short presentation on the Instrumentum Laboris (working document). #Synod2024www.youtube.com/live/z5zjiFN...
Latonja Taylor is one of many African-American Catholics pursuing a call to religious life. She is also a convert to the faith, hailing from a noted gospel music family on the South Side of Chicago. Briana Jansky interviewed her this summer. https://buff.ly/3zPTBm2
The call to rebuild the Church—first heard by St. Francis of Assisi in 1205—can seem somewhat timeless, especially in our current era of Catholic disaffiliation. On this feast of the Seraphic Father, Joseph Peach gives four tips for modern renewal. https://buff.ly/4eTkpRn
"We need to obtain the mindset Francis exemplified through his poverty and radical service to others. When we evangelize today, we need to ask ourselves: Do we evangelize the world because we want them to know we are right, or because we want to make the world right?"
Echoing recent signals, the Vatican's doctrine head says there is "no room" for Catholic women deacons under Holy Orders. Cardinal Victor Manuel "Tucho" Fernandez made the comments on the opening day of this year's session of the Synod on Synodality. https://buff.ly/4dCOHGF
Al Attles, the second African American to lead an NBA team, died at 87 in August, following six decades with the Warriors as a player, head coach, executive, and ambassador. He was described as a "devout Catholic" after his 1975 championship run. https://buff.ly/3Y5G5nv
Pope Francis says he'll seek sainthood for King Baudouin of Belgium—who praised his nation's deadly colonialism in the Congo and was linked to the assassination of its first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Supporters have praised his abortion opposition. https://buff.ly/3zHy52U
The late King Baudouin spoke highly of his great-granduncle Leopold II, whose extractive regime in the Congo Free State has been termed the Rubber Terror and the Congolese Genocide.
The global community stands at an inflection point of hatred, violence, and death—with answers hard to come by and hope in similarly scant supply. Dorothy Dempsey describes the moment in a new poem, "THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN". https://www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/the-world-that-we-live-in-poem/
