Editor’s Note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...

The Saint Benedict Institute will host the Most Reverend Joseph N. Perry for a talk titled “African American Saints in the Making” on Monday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. at Hope College in the Haworth Hotel.

Mary Sewell has long felt invisible to her religion, even inside the walls of the predominantly Black St. Ann’s Church in East Baltimore, where she has practiced her Catholic faith for over 50 years.

PITTSBURGH -- Name the patron saint of lovers: easy, St. Valentine. The patron saint of travelers: not too hard, St. Christopher. How about a black saint? Stumped? So are many black Roman Catholics.

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...

Black Catholics in America, who are three million of the 1.3 billion church members, are angry about a lack of representation in the church. Of those polled, three-quarters say opposing racism is ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — There was a buzz of energy in All Saints Church on Saturday, April 13. Rather than customary Catholic hymns, the choir kicked off the Convocation of Catholics of African Descent ...