Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, the first U.S. citizen of African descent to wear the red cassock, will concelebrate and preach at the Diocese of Phoenix’s annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mass.
Rev. King, a Baptist, lived Catholic social justice in ‘extraordinary fashion,’ says cardinal
Young people urged to be ‘persistent in highlighting’ the sacredness of life
“The beatitudes are the new standards that dare to suggest that we are to view life itself and our opinions about other people in a different way,” Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory said.
Black Catholics express joy at elevation of first African American cardinal
Father Robert Boxie III, the Catholic chaplain at Howard University in Washington, said the naming of Washington’s archbishop “as a cardinal is huge, it’s historic.”