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Pope Leo starts new series of speeches on documents of Vatican II

Black Catholics

The 16th Latin American and Caribbean Pastoral Encounter (EPA) meets in Luján, Argentina. (Credit: EPA.)

Black Catholics in Latin America look to Pope Leo for support

Nov 25, 2025
Eduardo Campos Lima

A sign that reads in Spanish: "Welcome to Mururata, cradle of Afro-Bolivian culture" stands in Mururata, Bolivia, on Aug. 3, 2025. (Credit: Juan Karita/AP.)

Afro-descendants in Bolivia fight invisibility with dance and memory

Sep 22, 2025
María Teresa Hernández,
Associated Press

The festivity of Our Lady of Perpetual Help promoted in Cali in June of 2023, with members of the Afro Pastoral Ministry of the Archdiocese of Cali, Colombia. (Credit: Afro Pastoral Ministry of Cali.)

Black Catholic women to launch network in Latin America

Jul 17, 2024
Eduardo Campos Lima

New Black Catholic leader aims to overcome ‘generation gap’ in community

May 4, 2024
John Lavenburg

Black, Hispanic Catholic choirs in Baltimore aim to promote ‘unity and joy’

Dec 9, 2023
John Lavenburg

Charles Richardson, of Baltimore, wipes his eye while discussing his alleged abuse decades ago by a Catholic priest, in Baltimore on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Black victims have largely been invisible in the Catholic sexual abuse crisis. Richardson recently came forward after the state of Maryland removed the civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse victims. (Credit: Steve Ruark/AP.)

In the US, Black survivors are nearly invisible in the Catholic clergy sexual abuse crisis

Nov 29, 2023
Tiffany Stanley,
Lea Skene

Brazilian Church bans sacramental wine produced with slave labor

Mar 3, 2023
Eduardo Campos Lima

Cardinal visits New Orleans congregation whose founder is up for sainthood

Oct 23, 2022
Peter Finney Jr.

Cardinal Gregory stresses need for believers to fight against racism

Oct 22, 2022
Richard Szczepanowski

Catholic Church in Mississippi remembers Emmett Till

Oct 22, 2022
John Lavenburg

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