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Abortion and its Impact on the Black Community

Bishop Joseph N. Perry
 
    

 WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

As the new director of the Archdiocese of Chicago Office for Black Catholics, I want to welcome you to the new Black Catholic Chicago website. This site is intended to provide the Black Catholic Community with the most updated and relevant faith-based information. It is our goal to supply supportive resources for programs, initiatives, and ministries which are designed to enhance your spiritual and social justice needs.

Beginning February 2010, we will feature each month, in alphabetical order, one Catholic church and Catholic school that serves Black Catholics within the Archdiocese of Chicago. We strive to be a strong voice within the Church and our community. To accomplish this we need your prayers, support, and input.
 
We are called to be Community. We are our sisters’ and brothers’ keeper. We are called to “Umoja,” which is unity, the first principle of Kwanzaa.  
 
Please feel free to email the Office for Black Catholics and share important news about your church communities with the entire archdiocese and the Church at large. Our email address is obc@archchicago.org. We all have gifts to share with each other. No church is too small, or too large, to share the Word of God. In your evangelization efforts, if you have found something that works, please share it with the larger Catholic community.
 
Remember, “It takes a Village.
 
Peace,
Mary Norfleet-Johnson
Director

Mary Norfleet Johnson

 

    

 Celebrate Black History Month

Hujambo! Every day of every month of every year should be a celebration of our rich and phenomenal history. February is the month set aside to pay particular attention to the sacrifices and contributions made by Blacks to the fabric of America, indeed, the world. The Roman Catholic Church has also been greatly enriched by the faith and spirituality of those from the African Diaspora. The Motherland and Africans played major roles in the Bible. The birth of Christianity was strengthened by those who dwelt in the caves of Egypt. Let us not forget our prophets, martyrs, and Church leaders.  Black Catholics are the inheritors of an ancient and awesome history.

Please take time this month to pay special homage to the ancestors by showing your faith, love and hope in God who has never forsaken us. A special brochure is now available online to commemorate the annual National Day of Prayer for the African American and African Family on February 7, 2010. For more information on the National Day of Prayer for the African American and African Family including a brochure, reflection and video go to solidgroundministry.com.  And, remember to lift up our families, community, nation and the world in prayer, not only on February 7th, but every day.
Salaam & Karama

 

    

 This Month in Black History

To learn interesting facts about those who have shaped Black Catholic history, please click the following link: LinkClick.aspx

 

This Month in Black History:

February 1, 1902

Playwright, poet, author Langston Hughes born

February 2, 1807

Congress bans foreign slave trade.

February 4, 1913

Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer who sparked Montgomery bus boycott, born.

February 11, 1990

Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years.

February 12, 1909

NAACP founded in New York City.

 

February 21, 1965
Malcolm X is assassinated in New York.

February 23, 1868

W.E.B. Dubois, scholar, activist and author of the Souls of Black Folk, born.

 

 

    

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Important Websites


NBCC
National Black Catholic Congress
www.nbccongress.org

USCCB
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.usccb.org