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 -- a Black Roman Catholic nun who founded the United ... for Black children in the city, she started a school in 1828, decades before the Civil War and the abolition ...

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 ...

the Archdiocese of Baltimore announced its first new school in Baltimore City in 60 years, which would be called "Mother Mary Lange Catholic School." The school primarily serves students who live ...

Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange — a Black Catholic nun who founded the United ... education for Black children in the city, she started a school in 1828, decades before the Civil War and the ...

Sister Delphine Okoro, a nun with the Oblate Sisters of Providence, high fives a student as she teaches a fifth grade class at Mother Mary Lange Catholic School in Baltimore, Md., Wednesday, April 27, ...

Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange -- a Black Catholic nun who founded the United ... education for Black children in the city, she started a school in 1828, decades before the Civil War and the ...

Two groups are advocating for Mother ... school at their convent. St. Frances Academy in East Baltimore, now co-ed, is one of the oldest African-American Catholic institutions in the United States ...

A year after the school’s founding, in 1829, Lange founded the ... of St. Mary of Assumption Catholic Church commissioned this stained glass portrait of Mother Mary Lange, shown in 2015.

The superintendent of the Archdiocese of Baltimore‘s Catholic schools, Dr. Donna Hargens, announced she will retire at the end of the school year. A national search will be held to find her ...