Events Focus on History, Gifts of Black Catholics This Month
November is Black Catholic History Month, and several upcoming events occurring regionally and nationally have been shared with local Black Catholics.
Father Stephen Thorne recently sent the newsletter of the Subcommittee for African American Catholics for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), on which he serves, to Black Catholics in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
The intention of the subcommittee, he said, “is to help share the good news from around the country” so that everyone may “know the history and celebrate the gifts of Black Catholics.”
Father Thorne, an archdiocesan priest and pastor of St. Barbara Parish in the Wynnfield section of Philadelphia, is also co-chair of the Archbishop’s Commission for Racial Healing.