Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Bringing Christ's love to the world
Dreams and Nightmares
by Liliana Velazquez, Montgomery County Community College
Fr. Maurice will speak on the history of Black people in the Catholic Church in the United States and address the pursuit of racial justice today in light of the church’s complicity in the history of slavery and racism in this country.
Fr. Maurice is a Roman Catholic priest in the Redemptorist Congregation. He is an award-winning author, having published many articles and book chapters about preaching, African American spirituality and culture, pastoral theology, evangelization and social justice. His most recent book is an award winning biography of his mentor, Sr. Thea Bowman. Bishop Joseph Kopacz of the Diocese of Jackson appointed Fr. Maurice to assist in the cause for canonization of Sr. Bowman. He is currently working on a book on preaching titled, Down Deep in My Soul: The Black Preaching Style in Catholic Worship, which emerges from a fellowship he has as an “Aquinas Delaplane Preaching Scholar” of Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis. Fr. Maurice also serves as the Convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium.
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Boreta Singleton will speak on Reading the Signs of the Times with Two Women of Faith: Catherine McAuley and Katharine Drexel. In her talk, Boreta will speak on the lives and legacies of two religious leaders in the Roman Catholic Church who, rooted in their relationship with God, pursued social justice and mercy.
Boreta Singleton, a native of Philadelphia, taught in Catholic elementary schools and served as Director of the Office for Black Catholics. She now lives in the Bronx, and has ministered with and for the Jesuits for almost 20 years, first as a teacher and administrator at St. Aloysius School in Harlem, and currently at St. Peter’s Prep High School in Jersey City as Director of Faculty Formation. Boreta is active in her church community of St. Francis Xavier in Manhattan as a member of a group of Spiritual Directors and Supervisors, the Racial Justice Ministry and the Parish Choir. She became an Associate of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas in 2018 as a result of co-facilitating their Institute Anti-Racism Transformation Team. She also sings with The Ignatian Schola, and the chorus of Choral Chameleon.
Join us for a day of immigration advocacy in Washington, DC!
Every year Cabrini University’s Center on Immigration coordinates a trip to the nation’s capital, to advocate for immigrant justice and lobby for immigration reform. We invite students, faculty, and staff to collaborate with us and travel to Washington, DC.
We would love to have you join us for our next advocacy day, which will take place on Thursday, April 16, 2020. Training and transportation will be provided. We ask that each participant fills out the attached Advocacy Day Form and emails the completed form to immigration@cabrini.edu.
Visit cabrini.edu/immigration for more information.