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The National Black Catholic Congress (NBCC) is a Black Catholic advocacy group and quinquennial conference in the United States.It is a spiritual successor to Daniel Rudd's Colored Catholic Congress movement of the late 19th and early 20th century.
The Colored Catholic Congress movement was a series of meetings organized by Daniel Rudd in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for African-American Catholics to discuss issues affecting their communities, churches, and other institutions.
The group was founded in April 1968, shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.The murder of King sparked a radical activist notion among Black Catholic clergy, who had themselves been mistreated [citation needed] for some time within the Catholic Church—after being locked out from the priesthood altogether for much of US Church history.
Perry is a past vice-president of the board of the National Black Catholic Congress, and chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Subcommittee on African-American Affairs. He is also a supporter and celebrant of the Traditional Latin Mass , and has celebrated pontifical high masses, ordinations, and confirmations according to ...
The celebration of Black Catholic History Month serves to raise awareness about the rich history and cultural heritage of Black Catholics.
In 1987, the Josephites' Bishop John Ricard founded the National Black Catholic Congress, a revival of the Colored Catholic Congress movement of the late 19th century. [ 5 ] In June 2011, some 130 years after their founding, the Josephites elected Norvel as their first black superior general . [ 9 ]
The Colored Catholic Congress held its first meeting in Washington, D.C. in January 1889, where Venerable Father Augustus Tolton, the nation's first openly-Black priest, celebrated Mass, and the 200-strong group met with President Grover Cleveland. [2]
National Black Catholic Congress, founded in the United States in 1987 as a successor to the Colored Catholic Congress founded a century earlier by Daniel Rudd. World Movement of Christian Workers (WMCW), an international association similar to the Catholic Worker Movement, recognized by the Catholic Church.