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Bishop Joseph Perry tells story of first Black Catholic priest in lecture at Holy Cross
Liam Kelly | Friday, February 17, 2023
Bishop Joseph Perry of the Archdiocese of Chicago urged the Catholic Church to embrace diversity in his lecture Thursday night at Holy Cross College on the life of Fr. Augustus Tolton, the first Catholic priest in the United States publicly known to be Black. Tolton lived his life with a “heroic seriousness” that allowed him