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Nate Tinner-Williams Profile picture
@natemup
Sep 18, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
During an interview today with @StellaMarisFilm, when asked about Black Catholic vocations, I spit out the numbers almost instinctually.

Two hundred and fifty Black priests (250).

Out of three million Black Catholics (3,000,000).

It hit me all over again how crazy that is...
(For context, there are ~37,000 Catholic priests in the United States and ~70 million Catholics overall.)
Once you learn the history, it's no mystery why the discrepancy is so horrific, but MAN. It really gets you thinking! (And plotting, in my case. 😁)

Never forget: there is a debt owed! Fight for Black Catholic parishes and schools. They are key. #BlackHistoryIsCatholicHistory

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Nov 12
LIVE: Day 2 of public sessions at fall meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops began with a vote, electing Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort-Wayne South Bend as secretary, following the current holder's election y'day as president.

#USCCB25 stream: Image
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has elected Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia as chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace.

Gudziak has strongly supported the Ukrainian war effort.

#USCCB25 stream: Image
The USCCB has elected Bp William Wack, CSC of Pensacola-Tallahassee as chairman of the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis.

Wack has previously shown himself a friend to Black Catholics, including the Knights of Peter Claver.

#USCCB25 livestream: Image
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Nov 11, 2021
So apparently Archbishop Sample of Portland is basically trying to give a "dispensation" from a major requirement of Traditionis Custodes. Lol Image
Source and full document: facebook.com/story.php?stor…
Looks like +Sample isn't the only one.

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Sep 8, 2021
The cardinal is live here in DC at @PressClubDC.

Tune in on C-SPAN, NPR Radio, or YouTube.
Q&A session has begun, beginning with a dialogue on COVID-19.

Cardinal Gregory says those Catholics opposing vaccines are on "shaky" ground, since both living popes are vaccinated.
Cardinal Gregory now recalls the day of his elevation to the cardinalate.

Says he's "still trying to figure out" what it means that he's the first African-American red hat.
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Sep 29, 2020
Also, @XULA1925 is kinda goated for their Daily Mass game (where I ran into Br Herman)...

The chapel is dumb nice—complete with my flavor of modernist architecture, a MASSIVE #BlackJesus above the altar, and Afrocentric stations of the Cross in the side windows. (pics soon!)
Plus we sing at Daily Mass, which = life.

That seems to be a fairly common thing at Black parishes, but this is the only place I've seen full-on 4-hymn sandwich Monday-Friday.

👏🏾Love.👏🏾To.👏🏾See.👏🏾 It.

(Also doesn't hurt that the pianist is amazing and has a beautiful voice.)
Last but not least, they apparently are staffed (at least partially) by @TheJosephites, which is the cherry on top.

While it's literally their job to serve African-Americans, and we're the only Catholic HBCU, it's still cool to see young priests showing out #fortheculture.
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Sep 27, 2020
halp Image
but no really: who did this?? 😭

#BlackCatholicHistoryIsCatholicHistory

#BlackCatholicSaints

#BlackBlesseds
Also, who knew "free negroes" ≠ "free people of color"? Apparently the former were those born in slavery, while the latter were those born free. (Gives a lil color to the current "people of color" terminology debate! 😁)

Also, "free negroes" as an academic term makes me giggle.
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Sep 24, 2020
Josephites wiki is coming right along, by the way! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_o…

Used the Jesuits wiki as a model—for obvious reasons. They're the world's biggest religious order, we're the world's best, and our postnominal (SSJ) is basically the "super" version of theirs (SJ) anyway.
Check out the updated infobox up top (complete with the full list of founders and the official heraldry), the much-expanded history section (used to be one small section), and the brand-new Superior General table (used to just be a list, and of only the guys since like 1988).
Hoping this'll blossom into individual pages—and sources (😁)—for major figures/topics, and eventually into a Wiki "series" on Black Catholicism. (There's series for other Catholic topics, and I tend to envy with stuff like this. 👀)

Excited to learn how to put it all together!
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