As a faithful Catholic who generally likes to hang around other faithful Catholics, I have heard a lot about Pride Month this year. Am I allowed to go to a parade? The logo at my kid’s daycare went rainbow for the month! My child is getting rainbow gear at school. …

I’m pro-vaccine but I have a lot of love and respect for my friends who disagree with me. I’m sick of seeing the government strong arm and shame people into vaccines. It’s not helping anyone. It’s only making the situation worse. Ideas that have been floated to get people to…

In an election year, we can count on a few things: Political ads Reminders to register to vote Reminders to vote Partisan opinions and nasty debates online Catholic voting guides I have often found Catholic voting guides to be disappointing at best. They often come across as very partisan or…

Dear OCP, It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to apologize. It’s okay to try to fix it. Really, it doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you human. What is annoying is when people or groups get called out for making honest mistakes and they double down and…

I would be amiss if I didn’t follow the last article up with Venerable Augustus Tolton’s namesake. He is the most important Church Father, highly respected by Catholics and Protestants. He’s kinda a big deal. And no one acknowledges that he was Black. He is whitewashed in every. stinkin. depiction. …

The Venerable Father Augustus Tolton (April 1, 1854 — July 9, 1897) was the first Black man to be ordained a priest in the United States. He was born into slavery in Missouri to parents who were slaves. He was baptized as a Catholic with his parents’ master’s wife as…

St. Benedict the Black (1526 — April 4, 1589) was the son of African slaves in Sicily. He was given his freedom upon his birth because of his parents’ “loyal service.” As a Black child of slaves in Sicily, he never got an education and he was illiterate. He worked…

If asked to list a Black saint, many Catholics could name St. Martin de Porres. St. Martin de Porres (9 December 1579-3 November 1639) was a lay brother in the Dominican religious order. He was no stranger to discrimination. He was interracial, his mother was African and his father was…

She’s a woman. She’s a foreigner. And she isn’t taking “no” for an answer. Her story is found in Matthew 15:21–28. She is one of the only people in the Bible to argue with God. The scene is set with an obnoxious, foreign woman following Jesus around. She’s desperate because…