Pope Francis upgraded the status of Baltimore-based religious icon Mother Mary Lange on Thursday from “servant of God” to “venerable” in the Catholic ... as a small school for Black ...

she founded a school for “girls of color” and then the Oblate Sisters of Providence, a religious community for women of African descent. The cause for Mother Mary Lange’s canonization was ...

Their founder, Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, also founded a school for "girls of color ... Hannah Brockhaus is Catholic News Agency’s senior Vatican correspondent. After growing up in Omaha ...

Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange ... Baltimore's Saint Frances Academy, which Lange founded. The coed school is the country's oldest continually operating Black Catholic educational facility ...

Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange ... s Saint Frances Academy, which Lange founded. The coed school is the country’s oldest continually operating Black Catholic educational facility, with a ...

Two groups are advocating for Mother Mary ... Catholic institutions in the United States. Lange was one of the founders of the Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1829, and a Catholic school bearing ...

Mother Mary Lange and the Oblate Sisters of Providence opened St. Frances Academy in Baltimore in 1828. This current building is the only new Catholic school built by the Archdiocese in Baltimore ...

Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange ... Baltimore's Saint Frances Academy, which Lange founded. The coed school is the country’s oldest continually operating Black Catholic educational facility ...

Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange ... Baltimore's Saint Frances Academy, which Lange founded. The coed school is the country's oldest continually operating Black Catholic educational facility ...

Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange ... Baltimore's Saint Frances Academy, which Lange founded. The coed school is the country's oldest continually operating Black Catholic educational facility ...