Life Style
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 African American Catholics
Must Answer the Call
- Volunteers can help incarcerated people to understand that their lives have
value; in spite of their crime, God still loves them. Volunteers can motivate
inmates to examine their values and actions in relationship to God's teachings.
To explore how these values and actions have hurt not just other people but
themselves. By examining their values etc., inmates may be willing to change the
values and actions that caused them to be incarcerated.
Youth & Young Adults
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 Who
am I? A Reflection by Seminarian Joshua Johnson
- We are so much more than what we do! We are more than our sins! We are more
than our mistakes! And yes, we are even more than accomplishments! We are God's
beloved Sons and Daughters! So when other people around you tell you that you
are not good enough or that God will not forgive you, run to the Father and ask
Him who He says that you are. Spend time in silence and listen to Him tell you
that you are His Beloved! This is who you are!
NBCC Spotlight
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 "FOCUS Worldwide
Network"
- "FOCUS Worldwide Network" is a nationally syndicated television program and
also airs on the radio and internet. This hour long program is a direct response
to Pope John Paul II who said, "The means of social communications have become
so important that as to be for many the chief means of information in their
behavior as individuals, families, and within society at large."
Job Announcements
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Principal, St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Elementary School
Principal, Xavier University Preparatory School (XUP)
President, St. Augustine High School (New Orleans)
NBCC News
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The Decline of Marriage And Rise of New Families
Religion in Prisons A 50-State Survey of Prison Chaplains
Bishops Welcome Repeal Of Death Penalty In Connecticut
Dominicans reflect on 50-year legacy of St. Martin de Porres' sainthood
Archbishop Sartain praises 'wonderful contribution' of women religious
Upcoming Events
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Sisters in Christ Gathering "A Woman's Personal Journey of Renewal"
May 26, 2012
Summer 2012 Sessions - Master Degree & Certificate & Enrichment Programs
June 22 - July 14, 2012
We Preach Christ Crucified- A Conference on Catholic Preaching
June 25-27, 2012
Congress XI: Celebrating 25 years "What We Have Seen and Heard"
July 19-21, 2012
Second African National Eucharistic Congress
August 3-5, 2012
For full details on upcoming events visit The NBCC Events
or the
Calendar page.
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Spirituality >>
 Letting go in order to Receive
Blessings: A Multitude of Faith
- Letting go, especially in not so good
times is a very hard thing to do. When someone is in pain or grief it might be
the most awkward time to try to convince them to do so. They would not see any
reason in such advice. But God is always in control. We have to seek Him first
in all things and at all times, no matter the circumstances because we are
people of faith.
 Ordering Our Desires
- Desire is often talked about as something we ought to overcome. Still, being
is desiring: our bodies, our minds, our hearts, and our souls are full of
desires. Some are unruly, turbulent, and very distracting; some make us think
deep thoughts and see great visions; some teach us how to love; and some keep us
searching for God.
Health & Wellness >>
14 Tips to Keeping Your
Mind Sharp as We Age - There is too much focus on the importance of
how we look as we age, rather than who we are as a person. I always loved the
quote that Judge Judy would say regarding beauty, "Beauty fades, but dumb is
forever". The mind is just as important in the process of aging. The point to
this is we need to focus on our minds as we age just as much as our physical
nutrition and exercise.
Book of the Month
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 The
New Jim Crow- In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer
socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for
discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle
Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted
criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against
African Americans.
Author of the Month
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 Michelle Alexander
- Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and
legal scholar. In recent years, she has taught at a number of universities,
including Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor of law and
directed the Civil Rights Clinics. In 2005, she won a Soros Justice Fellowship,
which supported the writing of The New Jim Crow, and that same year she accepted
a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University.
Recommended Sites
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From
its earliest days, the Society of the Divine Word (SVD)-the largest Catholic
missionary order in the world-has welcomed people from other cultures to sit
with them at the table of Christ as equals. This willingness to engage with
people of other races, creeds and ethnic origins was never more evident than
when the society opened the first seminary for African Americans. Not only was
the seminary established decades before the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s
and 1960s, but it was established in the Deep South where racial segregation
ran the hottest.
