BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The night of Aug. 22 to Aug. 23, 1791, in Santo Domingo – today Haiti and the Dominican Republic – saw the beginning...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Pope’s factual anthropological roots are not just symbolic. According to genealogist Jari Honora, his maternal lineage traces directly to the Black community...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Robson and Safechuck alleged the abuse occurred when they were minors and under Jackson’s care. Lower courts previously denied the men’s attempts to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “When talking about slavery, particularly the Transatlantic slave trade and its after-effects, there are certain institutions that directly benefitted and continue to reap...
In 2016, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. offered a public apology after acknowledging that 188 years prior, Jesuit priests sold 272 slaves to save the school...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — On Aug. 18, the United Nations held an observance that likely made Chavis, and others like him, proud. They remembered that on that...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Some relatives of students who were mercilessly gunned down by Islamic militants said Wednesday they would pray for...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis praised big families on Wednesday as a gift from God, after his comments that Catholics don’t...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis is firmly upholding church teaching banning contraception, but said Monday that Catholics don’t have...
VERBANIA, Italy (New York Times) — Pope Francis named 15 new cardinals from 14 countries on Sunday, continuing his efforts to diversify the church hierarchy and extend the...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis denounced the right to die movement Saturday, saying it’s a “false sense of compassion” to consider euthanasia as...
RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — America’s Catholic bishops came together Monday to project an image of unity, after a Vatican meeting on the...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A fight for the soul of the Catholic Church has broken out, and the first battlefield is a...
RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer The Vatican is investigating Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, Missouri, two years after he was convicted of failing to report...
RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer A canon lawyer alleging a widespread cover-up of clergy sex misconduct in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has made...
RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Latinos in the United States are abandoning the Roman Catholicism of their childhood in increasing numbers to...
(Reuters) – In the year since his surprise election, Pope Francis has raised so many hopes of imminent changes in Church teaching that managing all those...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is coming under increasing criticism that he simply doesn’t get it on sex abuse. Three months...
BOIS-NEUF, Haiti (AP) — The Christian pilgrims crowded a barren mountainside in central Haiti by the thousands, seeking favors and spiritual renewal. Organized over the weekend...
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Cardinal Chibly Langlois Jan. 14 (GIN) – In a further step away from old traditions at...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama meets Pope Francis in the Vatican in March, both men will speak a common economic...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty...
(VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis opened a landmark meeting Tuesday on reforming the Catholic Church, saying he wants a missionary church with a modern spirit that...
[AP] Tony Quarry suppressed his memories of being abused by a Roman Catholic priest for nearly 30 years and decided to sue only after finding out...
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] Preparing for his return to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles after six months’ treatment at a center for pedophile priests, Father Michael Wempe...
