Black Catholic Ministry Links

The Catholic African World Network (CAWN) was established in 1990 to provide communications services for the 200 million Catholics of African descent throughout the world. The major projects have been in the area of television projects and encouragement and cultural exchange in building a Pan-African awareness in the global Black Catholic community.

The Catholic African World Network 2:  Assisting our Black Catholic Community to be in solidarity with the global experience of Pan Afrian Catholicism.

Evangelization Ideas in the Black Catholic Community - "Project Reach-Out"

History of Black Catholics in the United States includes Fr. Augustus Tolton - 1st Black American Priest, Healy Brothers Succeed in White World, Blacks in Colonial Times, Work Among Blacks Increases, The Church and Slavery, and information about the First Black Saint.

National Black Sisters Conference - http://nbsc68.tripod.com/id49.htm

Project Reachout for Evangelization and Outreach

Secretariat for African American Catholics is the officially recognized voice of the African American Catholic community as it articulates the needs, aspirations regarding ministry, evangelization, social justice issues, and worship. The NCCB Secretariat for African American Catholics supports the Bishops' Committee for African American Catholics through identification and communication of socio-cultural dimension of the African American Community. The vastness of this dimension encompasses historical, social and cultural elements at work within African American communities. The Secretariat's role is consultative. It is often the voice of conscience, as we, a people of faith, grow toward a truly universal church.

The National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus Statement on Racism - http://bcimall.org/nbccc/sankofa500/

The National Black Catholic Congress, comprised of member organizations, represent African American Roman Catholics, working in collaboration with National Roman Catholic organizations. We commit ourselves to establishing an agenda for the evangelization of African Americans; and to improve the spiritual, mental, and physical conditions of African Americans, thereby committing ourselves to the freedom and growth of African Americans as full participants in church and society.

We Walk By Faith and Not By Sight - At their annual fall meeting in Washington DC, November 14 (2004), the bishops of the United States took pause to remember the 25tth anniversary of their celebrated document, "Brothers and Sisters To Us": a pastoral statement on the sin of racism. There are ninety-one bishops still alive who deliberated and voted on that document at that time. This pastoral letter continues to bear a message of great insight and vision that continues to speak to the circumstances of our time. The letter proves to be the most direct statement of the nation's bishops attacking racist practices in our nation and ecclesial community.