Article by Ralph E. Moore, Jr.
Some might find it hard to believe, but there are no African-American saints recognized officially by the Catholic Church. There are 11 White American saints, including Mother Elizabeth Seton, Bishop John Neumann, and Mother Katharine Drexel.
In 2022, how can this be? How can this inequity exist when Black, brown, and Indigenous Americans have endured much pain and suffering—particularly at the hands of the Catholic Church—in America and around the world?
Blacks and other persons of color have endured enslavement, racial segregation, silence from the Church in the face of mass incarceration, and modest attempts at charity to counter the nation’s mass poverty instead of serious words and meaningful works for change.