Robert Alan Glover writes for OSV News from central Kentucky.
Daryl Grigsby, the well-known African American commentator, author and convert to Catholicism 25 years ago, hosted a March 7 webinar on the thorny subject of racism, apparent indifference to it and what can be done about it in the Catholic Church.
Titled "Synodality,
Home to the landmark Edmund Pettus Bridge and other Civil Rights era memories, Alabama's Selma also is home to another effort to strengthen African-American family-owned farms and communities across the Deep South that rely on them: the Edmundite Missions' Black Farmers Initiative.
Founded
Catholic schools in the United States often walk a fine line between keeping their doors open or shutting down forever. Shrinking enrollment -- and sometimes shrinking parishes -- are key causes of their demise making children the tragic losers.
But Deacon Ron Allen,
Three different, all-girls Catholic high schools and college preparatory academies are no longer run by the respective religious orders that founded them, but all of them could be given A's for both academics and adoration of the Catholic faith.
Two provinces of the Congregation of the Passion and a lay-run Catholic nonprofit have all taken the lead in switching to solar energy to power their work as part of their response to Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si'," which teaches on the
Two years ago over the course of a Friday night Dec. 10-11, a series of tornadoes struck western Kentucky, killing 57 with additional fatalities in Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee and Missouri and damaging and destroying several thousand residences as well as nearly 200