New Shrine Announced to Honor First US-Born African American Priest
EXCLUSIVE: On Venerable Augustus Tolton, former slave-turned-Catholic priest: ‘He carried his crosses in life quietly and heroically,’ says Bishop Thomas Paprocki.
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Juneteenth and the Life of the First Black American Catholic Priest
No American seminary would accept Tolton because of his race, so he studied for the priesthood in Rome and was ordained in 1886 at the age of 31, becoming the first African American ordained as a priest.
Martin Luther King's Faith Challenges Us to Personal Conversion, Archbishop Broglio Says
The president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops reflected on King's legacy of racial justice.
Venerable Augustus Tolton Puts Focus on Black Catholic Insight Into Holiness
Black Catholic candidates for sainthood provide a powerful answer to: Why be Catholic?
