Students from St. Anthony Catholic School in Washington are seen near a poster of Sister Thea Bowman April 29, 2022. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) WASHINGTON (CNS) — A new documentary on Sister Thea ...

Since her untimely death on March 30, 1990, at age 52, at least 16 institutions have taken the name of Sister Thea, from schools and academies to spirituality centers. This spring, Viterbo University ...

Sr. Thea Bowman was the first African American woman to address the U.S. bishops' conference. Most likely, she was also the first person to get them to hold hands and sing and sway to a Negro ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Officials at The Catholic University of America dedicated and blessed a campus street April 29 named in honor of the late Sister Thea Bowman, a noted educator and evangelist who ...

The print of a portrait of Sister Thea Bowman by Mississippi artist Vernon Adams is seen along with religious items at the new Catholic Student Center at Howard University Aug. 28, 2023. (OSV News ...

As Shae Goodman-Robinson oversees an elementary school of 50 students at Sister Thea Bowman Catholic School in west Jackson, she often looks to her late mentor — Bowman, who grew up in Canton — for ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A woman laid to rest here in Memphis is one of only a handful of African Americans on the path to sainthood in the Catholic Church. As FOX13 celebrates Black History Month, we share ...

Sr. Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., Ph.D., was born in the small rural town of Canton in Central Mississippi. Her grandfather was a slave; her father was a physician and her mother, a teacher. In 1965, Sr.

Sister Thea McQuistion, 95, fulfilled her life’s journey on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. Sister Thea (Marion) McQuistion was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, on April 23, 1927, the second of three ...

This is an official promotional poster for the documentary “Going Home Like a Shooting Star: Thea Bowman’s Journey to Sainthood.” The documentary will air on ABC stations nationwide beginning Oct. 2, ...