Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The church, originally known as Our Lady of Lourdes Colored Mission, was built as a three-story combination church and school, and Lissner served as its first priest. [3] At the time, it was the second Catholic mission intended to serve African Americans in Georgia and the first in Atlanta. [ 3 ]
Black Atlantans who were born and raised in the City of Atlanta proper have always had a small Black Catholic presence in the city dating from the early 1900s with the establishment of Black parishes such as Our Lady of Lourdes (founded in 1912) and Saint Paul of the Cross that was founded in the 1950s.
Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church South Fulton: 1989 [20] 1964 Holy Cross Catholic Cburch Atlanta 1989 [21] 1964 Holy Spirit Catholic Church Atlanta 1977 [22] 1965 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church Carrollton: 1962 [23] 1967 St. James Catholic Church Madison: 1995 [24] 1972 St. Anna Catholic Church Monroe [25] 1973 Holy Family ...
The Archdiocese of Atlanta (Latin: Archdiœcesis Atlantensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in northern Georgia in United States. The archdiocese is led by a prelate archbishop , who also serves as pastor of the mother church , the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta. [ 1 ]
Vice President Kamala Harris visited churches in Georgia on Sunday, urging congregants to cast early ballots as part of her campaign’s “souls to the polls” push to turn out Black voters.
The aforementioned St Joseph's Black Catholic Church in Norfolk, having been merged with St Mary of the Immaculate Conception (Towson) in 1961 and renamed as such, was named a minor basilica in 1991—allegedly the first "black basilica" (though preceded by Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in Chicago) and the first minor basilica in Virginia. [107 ...
Tim Kaine says the experience of attending a predominately black church revealed a contrast between his life and that of millions of minority Americans.
Some Black women religious leaders, churchgoers and others in Christian communities said they were figuring out how to think about the ways abortion squares Black women from 20 to 78 share how ...