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Worshippers pray during a Black History Month Mass of thanksgiving Feb. 28, 2021, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, New York. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz) The vast majority of Black Catholics say fighting racism and sexism is essential to their faith, yet the majority-white churches they often attend are failing to meet their needs, said speakers on a Feb. 25 panel on Black Catholics faith and religious practices. We [Black Catholics] believe on some level that the church needs us sometimes more than we need the church, said Fr. Bryan Massingale, professor of ethics and theology at Fordham University and author of ....
The Tablet March 1, 2021 The following is the full text from homilist Father Franklin Ezeorah, for the Feb. 28, 2021 Black History Month Mass: “I like to begin by thanking your excellency Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, the Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn Diocese, and the Very Reverend Father Alonzo Cox, the Vicar for the Black Catholic Concerns of the Diocese of Brooklyn, for graciously allowing me to be the homilist of this year’s Diocesan Black History celebration. This Diocese is arguably the most diverse in the US because of its openness to welcome immigrants and its diversified nature of pastoral ministration… and the credit goes to you, Bishop, and your collaborators for realizing that there is strength in diversity. We essentially embrace diversity because although we have different people globally, we have only one human race. ....
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The Tablet January 19, 2021 Father Alonzo Cox (right), who led the prayer service, said that while African-Americans had not yet reached the promised land of racial justice as King had predicted, “We will get there.” (Photos: Paula Katinas) BEDFORD-STUYVESANT Maria Stange has vivid memories of the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. She was only eight years old at the time, but April 4, 1968, is burned into her brain. “It was incredible. People who didn’t even know each other were hugging each other on the street. That’s how emotional everybody felt,” she said. Stange was one of a small group of people who attended a special prayer service at Our Lady of Victory Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Jan. 18, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, to celebrate the civil rights icon’s life and legacy. ....