Black Catholics

Gloria Purvis said the display’s removal was “a larger part … of erasing the Black experience as well as Black accomplishments from American history.”

An official closing session of the diocesan phase of the canonization process followed the Feb. 9 Mass, where the cause’s leaders ceremoniously sealed several boxes containing the diocesan phase’s documents …

The clip, set to music from “The Lion King,” depicted prominent Democrats as animals, including an image of the former president and first lady as apes.

“(This) is an opportunity for us to prayerfully reflect on the ways history has been preserved, honored, and passed on across generations.”

African American heroes “exhibit a determination and a moral integrity that enriches our nation and perfects the human spirit,” the cardinal said.

While both films acknowledge the long, ugly history of American racial prejudice — tough to cover in a short documentary — they also maintain a tightly efficient look at evangelization …

“You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been. If you want to destroy a people, you make them forget their history.”

The 100th anniversary of Xavier University of Louisiana has focused on the gifts of faith, love and reading the signs of the times.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law Aug. 6, 1965, surrounded by many Civil Rights leaders who had fought hard for its passage.

“This is the future of who we are, the entire family,” Supreme Knight Christopher Pichon said.