African American Catholic parishes have long been a wellspring of civil involvement in the District.
Members of the gospel choir of St. Augustine Catholic Church hold a free concert in McPherson Square Park in November. The parish is known as the"mother church of African American Catholics" in the District. By Julie Zauzmer Julie Zauzmer Reporter covering religion, faith and spirituality Email Bio Follow May 20 at 9:32 AM The leafy neighborhood surrounding Holy Comforter Saint-Cyprian Roman Catholic Church has transformed in recent years.
She credits Atlanta’s archbishop, Wilton Gregory, for fostering a church culture that made that inclusiveness possible. And this week, Gregory will leave Atlanta to become the first African American archbishop of Washington. “It may make a positive change for us, too,” Rodney said to her Bible study group.
Karl A. Racine, the District’s attorney general, fondly recalls his roots in the city’s predominantly African American parishes and boasts of the nuns and priests who are among his relatives. He said that when he heard Gregory would be the next Washington archbishop, he asked friends in Atlanta about Gregory’s involvement in black community issues and was pleased by what he heard.
Bishop Roy Campbell, the auxiliary bishop of Washington, said that he has found that parishioners are hungering for African American leadership in the Catholic Church. “It will be a definite change here in the Archdiocese of Washington,” he said. “Hopefully . . . our black Catholics will see that they are as relevant as any other Catholics in the community. Sometimes you can feel that you might be not heard as much as others.
During the riots that scarred Washington after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, a woman is comforted at a food distribution center at the St. Paul and Augustine auditorium in Washington on April 7, 1968. Some parishes, including St. Augustine, a church near 14th Street NW known as the “mother church of African American Catholics,” successfully fought the idea and kept their schools operating. But others, including Holy Comforter, had their schools turned to charters.
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