The history of U.S. Black Catholics is a mix of struggles and breakthroughs that has been largely ignored. Amid the national tumult over racial injustice, leaders want Catholic schools to teach more about the church’s past links to slavery and segregation.
Faustina Bema, a candidate for Novice of the Sisters of the Holy Family, prays inside a chapel during a retreat at their Mother House in New Orleans, Thursday, July 23, 2020. In the archdioceses of New Orleans and Chicago, top leaders are encouraging their schools to place a new emphasis on teaching about racial justice, as well as the history of Black Catholics.
Among those recruited to join the advisory committee is Henry Fortier, superintendent of Catholic schools in Orlando, Florida. At present, there are about 3 million African American Catholics, roughly 4% of the nation’s 69 million Catholics. In the Archdiocese of Chicago, there’s a school and a ministry recruitment program named after Tolton. The archbishop, Cardinal Blase Cupich, has spearheaded Tolton’s canonization campaign.
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