Black Catholics



To meet the growing needs for professionally trained and credentialed ministers in the Black Catholic Community in Chicago, CTU and the Archdiocese of Chicago jointly sponsor the Augustus Tolton Pastoral Ministry Program.


To foster the on-going formation of Tolton Scholars and the community, the Tolton Program sponsor a series of lectures throughout the academic year in the area of African-American theology and religious and cultural heritage. The Sankofa lecture, inaugurated in 2004, as its name suggests, mines the past to live in the present and envision the future. The annual August Tolton Lecture brings the best of Black Catholic theological scholarship to CTU during the annual Tolton week.

Sankofa Lecture on Black Catholic History

2004-2005
“‘A Religious Society of Colored Women’: The Early History of the Oblate Sisters of Providence" (PDF)
 by Diane Batts Morrow, Ph.D., University of Georgia

 

  2005-2006
“The Canonization Process for Mother Henriette Delille, Foundress of the Sisters of the Holy
Family”
 by Eva Regina Martin, SSF, PhD, Institute for Black Catholic Studies


 

August Tolton Lecture

 

2005

"Courage, Conscience, and Compassion: The Roles of African-American Laity in Building the U.S. Catholic Church"

by Dr Cecilia A. Moore

 

"Mending Broken Fences: The Challenge of Solidarity between Africans and African-American Catholics."

by Dr Paulinus Odozor


2006
 “Slavery in Ancient Times”
 by Kimberly Flint-Hamilton, PhD, Stetson University, and Fabian E. Udoh, PhD, University

of Notre Dame


Support the August Tolton Scholarship Fund. Contact tolton@ctu.edu for more information.