African American Catholics

The Vicar for Catholics of African Descent serves the African, African American, and Caribbean Catholic communities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. The Vicar works with Archdiocesan offices and agencies in implementing the mission and goals of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston along with the National Black Catholic Pastoral Plan through collaboration, implementation, advocacy, leadership, and evangelization. The Vicar for Catholics of African Descent provides a voice and representation at the decision-making level within the archdiocesan structure, serves as a vehicle to provide spiritual, cultural, educational, and social development for Catholics of African Descent, identifies the needs, concerns, and issues of these Catholic communities and communicates these needs, concerns, and issues to established Archdiocesan offices and agencies, and coordinates constituency ministry and supports on-going pastoral ministry.
 

National Black Catholic Congress ~ July 19-21, 2012

What is "Congress"?

• A convocation of two to three thousand people from across the USA, Canada and Caribbean.
• An assembly to consider the concerns of Black Catholics in America.
• A starting point for a five-year plan of action guiding African American ministries.
• A four-day celebration of Catholic and African American faith, identity, and culture.
• A unique space, where blacks who are Catholic and Catholics who are Black are, just once every five years,a majority voice.
• A conference, with panels, exhibits, and cultural events to discover and share best practices in
evangelization and social ministry.
• A spiritual uplift of glorious Eucharistic celebrations with dozens of concelebrants, superb music,inspirational dance and homilies.
• Professional development for parish and diocesan staff in Black Catholic ministries, sharing their strengths and refreshing their work.
• A not-to-be-missed event for youth and young adults, with a full program designed by and for the nextgeneration of Black Catholics.

More details on how to register for the event, click here.
 

Parishes in the African-American Apostolate