During these days of racial unrest and protests in the United States it is important for all of us to know our American history and learn about those holy Black Catholics who struggled and made a ...
• The Rev. Paul E. Carrier, S.J., a former longtime director of Campus Ministry at Fairfield University. He helped establish the Haiti Fund, a nonprofit that raised millions for Perlitz's program. He ...
One of New York City’s former slaves has a street named after him in a Haitian-dominated community in Brooklyn’s Flatbush section. On Sunday, Freeman Pierre Toussaint had a street named in his honor ...
Pierre Toussaint was born a slave in Haiti on the Bérard plantation, known as L’Artibonite. According to the most recent chronology, the year was 1781. The young Toussaint was spared the grueling toil ...
If anyone deserves to be canonized by the Catholic Church, Norman Darden reasons, it’s Pierre Toussaint, a 19th-century entrepreneur who bought his way out of slavery after a life of piety and ...
JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, has falsely accused Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, of stealing and eating their neighbors’ cats and dogs. What should be our response to ...
NEW YORK, United States (CMC) — A Haitian-born legislator in New York has co-named a major thoroughfare in Brooklyn in honour of Haitian patron saint, renowned Haitian philanthropist and founder of ...
• The Rev. Paul E. Carrier, S.J., a former longtime director of Campus Ministry at Fairfield University. He helped establish the Haiti Fund, a nonprofit that raised millions for Perlitz's program. He ...