Nate Tinner-Williams
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Editor of Black Catholic Messenger ( @BlkCathStories ) ~ text: (202) 642-6782 | member @NABJ + @SPJ_tweets | ThM student @XULA1925 / @IBCS_XULA | #ActuallyAutistic
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It's the home stretch of our BCM Spring Giving Campaign! Through the end of the month, you can make a tax-deductible donation to support Black Catholic journalism in this crucial season.
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"Adrian Peterson used what many call a 'switch' to discipline his son, leaving large red marks"
(Blacks everywhere):
http://t.co/muePCcH4pn
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Today marks three years as a Catholic!
No place I'd rather be. 🙏🏾
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My uncle died unexpectedly today. Please pray for his soul and for our family.
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"President Biden is not in communion with the Catholic faith. Any priest who provides him Communion is participating in his hypocrisy."
—Archbishop Emeritus Charles Chaput, OFM Cap. of Philadelphia in an address just now to a Eucharistic Symposium for the Diocese of Arlington.
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She's fine, alright. Simone Biles fell twice in warmups, but gets an extended ovation after she nailed THIS for her first vault.
Well on her way to a record eighth all-around national title.
Competition streaming live on
@Peacock
.
#XfinityChamps
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Please pray for my older brother, who is incarcerated. He has been asking for details about why I decided to become Catholic, and seems to be very interested in reading some history.
I plan to send him a book or two soon.
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NEW: Louisiana's Dwayne Dopsie has confirmed that Beyoncé's upcoming "Act II" album will include at least one zydeco track, produced by Raphael Saadiq. 👇🏾
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Extremely rough few weeks of seminary formation getting rougher. Please pray for me.
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We buried my uncle today in Indiana. Please pray for him and for our family.
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Please pray for my cousin, who was murdered in my hometown this week. Also for our family. Thank you.
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Please pray for a priest who has just fallen unconscious during Mass.
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Please pray for my uncle, who had a heart attack last night and is now in the ICU.
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Please pray for me. Post-COVID cough is killing me and I'm dealing with a leg injury as well; having trouble walking today.
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@isaiahthomas
In a pandemic? For free, while Duke and the NCAA profit off of his name and game?
Nawl, homie has every right... These PWIs are lucky every day these kids wake up and decide to play along with the scheme. 💯
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Please pray for a 5-year-old boy who may have to have his eye removed in the next 24 hours due to a possible tumor.
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Happy feast of Venerable Augustus Tolton, the nation's first openly Black Catholic priest!
Died at 43
#OTD
in 1897 after escaping slavery as a child, overcoming racist obstacles to enter seminary in Rome, and gaining fame as a pastor and preacher in Quincy, Illinois and Chicago.
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This will be my first Ash Wednesday (and Lent) as a Catholic. What do I need to know?
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Please pray for my brother.
He got jumped last night and was talking about suicide earlier today. I don't know where he is right now, and I haven't gotten word yet of anyone in our family getting ahold of him.
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About to give a talk on Black Catholicism, racial justice, and my personal testimony.
Please pray for me!
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I have a psych eval tomorrow for my priesthood application process.
Please pray for me.
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Please pray for my mom, who is headed to the hospital.
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Got the COVID again. Heavily vaxxed. Mildly symptomatic.
Please prayest thou for me. 🙏🏾
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Please pray for my cousin who was in a bad car accident yesterday. He is paralyzed right now but we are hoping for a miracle.
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NEW: Looks like at least one Black Catholic parish will not have blessings for same-sex couples. Msgr Charles Pope, pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian in DC, has opted out.
"I think the blessings of such unions would, in fact, lead to confusion and scandal among the faithful."
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Happy feast of All Saints of Africa!
Celebrated each year in the Catholic Church on November 6 in a few regions around the world. (Hopefully more soon!)
Holy ancestors, pray for us. 🙏🏾
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Please pray for a friend's dad, who starts chemo tomorrow.
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Happy Feast of Venerable Augustus Tolton, America's first openly Black priest!
Born in Missouri, escaped to freedom, blocked from US seminaries, ordained in Rome, and bound for sainthood.
Holy cleric, pray for us!
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Stunning "Baltimore Pieta" by Wayman Scott IV at the debut of a new exhibit including several of his works. Black Catholic artist based here in Baltimore.
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Please pray for my aunt, who is being transitioned to the ICU.
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Please pray for my cousin Barbara, who is suffering from liver failure.
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Looks like I'll be in Rome for the pope emeritus' funeral later this week.
Never been before. Any tips?
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My cousin Brandon passed away yesterday. Please pray for his soul and for our family.
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Perfect day to announce that I've (basically) been accepted into formation with
@TheJosephites
!
I'll most likely be moving into a parish next month, where I'll stay until entering seminary next Fall.
I appreciate continued prayers for the process!
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Please pray for a Black priest who is in failing health. 🙏🏾
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My soul would like to know why the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington retweeted this. Lol
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MY hometown, Evansville, Indiana—once the headquarters of the KKK—has elected its first Black mayor, Stephanie Terry.
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Please pray for my aunt, who's at the hospital with a major respiratory issue.
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Candidates for baptism tonight at St. Augustine, the mother church of Black Catholics in the nation's capital. On the right is Dorian, a student at Howard University.
Livestream:
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I got the COVID. Symptomatic, but it could be worse. I appreciate your prayers.
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My parents' company is closing at the end of the month.
Please pray for them, their employees (including myself), and all the families we work with.
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NEW: Grayson Warren Brown, the celebrated Black Catholic liturgist, died this morning, according to a source.
The “Jesus, the Bread of Life” composer was known for his genre-crossing work and his music was used in hymnals and services across various Christian denominations.
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Please pray for one of our seminarians, whose mother has had a heart attack.
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Please pray for a friend who was just in a skiing accident. In the ICU between surgeries.
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Please pray for my dad, who has COVID. That makes two of us now. (We're in different states, btw.)
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Please pray for a priest friend in San Francisco who is undergoing a heart procedure tomorrow.
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Please pray for a former roommate, who I learned today passed away last year. He was 22.
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Pope Francis: "I would say to African-American Catholics that the pope is aware of their suffering, that he loves them very much, and that they should resist and not walk away. Racism is an intolerable sin against God. The Church... must continue fighting to eradicate it..."
BREAKING: Pope Francis denounces polarization, talks women’s ordination, the U.S. bishops and more in new exclusive interview
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Mom just rushed back into surgery. Please pray with the intercession of Venerable Henriette DeLille.
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Please pray for a Black religious sister in medical distress.
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Presented without comment: at least 8 of the roughly 3 dozen African-American Catholic seminarians have exited formation within the past year.
🙏🏾
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Please pray for me. I've been under the weather for a few days now.
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A guy discerning with our community lost his dad today. Please pray.
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I already wrote a piece on how Black Catholics have been saving America since colonialism, but it hit me yesterday that we also invented jazz, funk, rap, rock n' roll, and zydeco.
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Please pray for a Josephite priest who just suffered a stroke.
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Please pray for my brother and his wife, whose due date is tomorrow.
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First things first: The Sixers' Joel Embiid, a Black Catholic, thanks God during his MVP address before tonight's game 3 showdown in Philly.
"I wouldn't be here without him."
Tears start flowing after his son comes to greet him at halfcourt during his speech.
"He's the main
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In other news, I'm moving yet again, this time to a Catholic young adult community here in New Orleans, before—hopefully—entering postulancy/seminary with the Josephites in the Fall.
Please pray that all goes well with the remaining priesthood application steps!
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@wyllsmith1
@TheUndefeated
@jemelehill
It's really a minority of African-Americans that feel it's bad. Most of us it as a term of endearment, and I assume that stems from wanting to repurpose something bad. We also use it as a term for stereotypical blacks, so that suggests the transition may not have been so pure...
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A Catholic governor in the Deep South lending his support to abolition. 👀
The death penalty doesn’t deter crime; it isn’t necessary for public safety; and it is wholly inconsistent with Louisiana’s pro-life values as it quite literally promotes a culture of death. For these reasons I support
@RepKyleGreen
’s bill to abolish the death penalty.
#lagov
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Was just informed that a good friend died in a car accident earlier this week.
Please pray for him as he makes his journey home, and for his wife, family, church, and friends who are grieving.
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Please pray for me as I travel back to New Orleans from Los Angeles. It will be my last few days in the city before I leave for DC/seminary.
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Please pray for my mom and brother, who are facing medical issues.
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Happy feast of Pope St. Melchiades the African!
Also known as Miltiades, he served from 311 to 314 and was the second of three African popes in the early years of the Church. He was the first pope to occupy the Cathedral of St. John Lateran.
Holy African pontiff, pray for us!
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Happy feast of Our Lady of Africa!
Spent my morning making sure she's represented on Wikipedia:
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Now this is my kind of chaotic. 😁
(St. Michael the Archangel by Amber Knorr)
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Please pray for a Black priest who is in the hospital.
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It's official!
The Most Reverend Wilton Gregory (
@WashArchbishop
) will indeed be named a cardinal.
The announcement came this morning in Rome, and the consistory is scheduled for November 28—the eve of Advent.
A momentous occasion for the Church and for Black Catholicism!
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Please pray for a Black priest recently hospitalized with heart issues.
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Contrary to my reporting yesterday, there was in fact a Black Catholic at the inauguration ceremony. In fact, the one who stole the show:
@TheAmandaGorman
.
Member of
@StBrigid_Church
in Los Angeles—a parish of
@TheJosephites
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About to start the first Mass of the school year for the Howard University Newman Club. 🦬🇻🇦
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@Ballislife
@hoopdreamsbball
Disrespectful. In his prime, Kobe shot 46-47% from the field. KD shoots about 50%. AI was hovering around 41%.
Stop the slander.
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Please pray for a cousin who has contracted COVID-19 and is not feeling well.
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A little primer for
#BlackHistoryMonth
, including the announcement that I've been accepted into formation with
@TheJosephites
.
Please pray for me, for the society, and for Black vocations.
The crisis of Black vocations is obvious, though hidden. Subtle, yet devastating. We are centuries into its festering, but it remains a muted topic in most Catholic circles.
Nate Tinner-Williams (
@natemup
) offers a history lesson, and a call to action.
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