Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
About a decade ago, on pilgrimage to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Ta’Pinu in Gozo – the island next to Malta – I found myself walking through corridors lined floor to ceiling with tokens of answered prayer.
In recent months, renewed attention has been given to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – a landmark piece of legislation that helped secure the right to vote for Black Americans, particularly in the South, where discriminatory practices persisted even after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.