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If AI takes our jobs, will it take our sense of purpose, too? This Catholic op-ed explores work, vocation and our ultimate ...

The National Black Catholic Men’s Conference will hold its annual gathering Oct. 15-18 in Birmingham, Alabama.

My identity as a church musician was forged in the rich crucible of the Black Catholic aesthetic. Growing up during the 1990s and 2000s at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Baton Rouge, ...

Nate Tinner-Williams is the co-founder and former editor of Black Catholic Messenger, which he led for nearly six years. An award-winning writer, commentator, and speaker, Nate has emerged as one of ...

A $5 million gift from former Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer will help restore Detroit’s historic St. Cecilia Catholic School and gymnasium into a long-planned youth center, local nonprofit ...

Children wave Vatican flags at an event with Pope Francis at the St. Theresa Cathedral in Juba, South Sudan, in February 2023. (Vatican Media) I recently completed reading Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, ...

"Negro church in mill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania", January 1941. (Jack Delano/Creative Commons) Across many U.S. Catholic dioceses today, there is real movement toward Latino outreach. It is ...

Pope Leo XIV signs his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on May 25, 2026. (Vatican Media) In his groundbreaking new encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas,” ...

On a recent visit to New Orleans, I was deeply moved by some of the work being done at the Rebuild Center by the Daughters of Charity and by the Vincentians at St. Joseph Catholic Church, along with ...

Servant of God Thea Bowman speaks at a church in 1988. (Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration) The Second Vatican Council did not hesitate to emphasize the importance of preaching. Sometimes as ...

In the quiet strength of St. Joseph, the Church encounters a model of labor not as mere survival, but as participation in God’s creative and redemptive work. Scripture does not record any of Joseph’s ...