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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 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.
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.
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 ...
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 National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC) was an organization of Black Catholics in the United States, founded in 1970 and headquartered in Washington, DC.Its mission was “to make the Church relevant to the needs of the black community; to assist generally in the black liberation movement; to assist black Catholics in their efforts to become self-determining; and to become an effective ...
The celebration of Black Catholic History Month serves to raise awareness about the rich history and cultural heritage of Black Catholics.
A Catholic lay association, also referred to as Catholic Congress, is an association of lay Catholics aiming to discuss certain political or social issues from a Catholic perspective. [ 1 ] The Pontifical Council for the Laity is the body responsible for approving those Catholic associations that exist at an international level. [ 2 ]