Sister Thea Bowman and Catholic Spirituality. by Dawn Araujo-Hawkins - Published on July 06, 2021 It‘s been nearly 30 years since Sr. Thea Bowman famous- ly declared to a gathering of the U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Officials at The Catholic University of America dedicated and blessed a campus street April 29 named in honor of the late Sister Thea Bowman, a noted educator and evangelist ...

CNA Staff, Jun 18, 2020 / 02:00 am. Sister Thea Bowman was the granddaughter of a slave, an advocate for racial justice, and the first African American woman to address the U.S. bishops' conference.

During the 1960s, Sister Thea Bowman became an integral part in the civil rights movement. It is because of her work in civil rights that the Diocese of Jackson opened a cause for canonization in ...

At the age of 9, Bowman was conditionally baptized in the Catholic Church — according to Father Maurice Nutt, a student and biographer of Sister Thea, and Mary Woodward, chancellor of the ...

Sr. Thea Bowman was the first African American woman to address the U.S. bishops' conference. Most likely, she was also the first person to get them to hold hands and sing and sway to a Negro ...

If you have not yet seen Sister Thea Bowman’s 1989 address to the U.S. bishops, pause whatever you’re doing and go watch it.And for any newly ordained U.S. bishop, it should be required viewing.

Sister Thea Bowman, who served the Catholic Diocese of Jackson, is on the next level to sainthood with the Pope’s blessing. “We’re talking about somebody who put herself last.

The print of a portrait of Sister Thea Bowman by Mississippi artist Vernon Adams is seen along with religious items at the new Catholic Student Center at Howard University Aug. 28, 2023.

She wore African dress, began by singing, preached on what it meant to be Black and Catholic in America — and Sister Thea Bowman ended her 1989 speech to the U.S. Catholic Bishops by convincing ...

Sister Thea Bowman and Catholic Spirituality. by Dawn Araujo-Hawkins - Published on July 06, 2021 It‘s been nearly 30 years since Sr. Thea Bowman famous- ly declared to a gathering of the U.S.