After attending both the Knights of Peter Claver conference and the 13th National Black Catholic Congress, Dr. Ansel Augustine notes that through generations of such gatherings the same questions keep needing to be asked and seem to go unanswered.
On February 8, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had appointed Bishop Shelton Fabre of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, to replace Archbishop Joseph Kurtz as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky. In a recent interview with Our Sunday Visitor, Archbishop
A day after Hurricane Ida ripped through New Orleans, Dr. Ansel Augustine, writes that while there is much uncertainty — with power out across the city and much of Louisiana — recovering from a severe hurricane is nothing Louisianans haven’t experienced before.
Ansel Augustine, executive director of the Office of Cultural Diversity and Outreach for the Archdiocese of Washington, writes that for the Church to begin to heal from the sins of racism, it must embrace the gifts that all people and cultures within