Henriette Delille | National Catholic Reporter

Sr. Thea Bowman, pictured in 1988, is among six African American candidates for sainthood. Bowman, the only African American member of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, died in 1990. (Courtesy of Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration)

There are no African American saints. A lay Catholic group seeks to change that.

A lay Catholic group in Baltimore is pushing the pope to canonize six Black candidates. They also seek to change the canonization process to recognize the hardships African Americans have endured.

Smoke rises from the ruins of African Americans' homes following the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (CNS/Library of Congress, Handout via Reuters/National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records/Alvin C. Krupnick Co.)

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