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Being a businessman is a vocation and a path to holiness, Catholic expert says
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In Short: Bishop Boxie, one of the newest bishops appointed by Pope Leo XIV in the U.S., addressed the undercurrent of racism within the Catholic Church.
Calvo noted that God invites entrepreneurs to improve the world and make it more habitable for humanity.
He stated, “Being a businessman (or woman) is a true vocation, and work well done can be a path of service and holiness.”
Calvo highlighted that business transcends profit, as it creates jobs, goods, and services that benefit society.
According to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, only five of 268 active U.S. bishops are Black, and only two are African American.
Calvo’s lecture aims to help businessmen discover that their work, when well done, is also a path of service and holiness.
Pope Leo XIV recently visited Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, calling on Catholics to be “living stones” of a Church that bears witness to how God’s love restores and heals humanity.
What's confirmed
- Sheen — the 20th-century theologian, evangelizer, Catholic communications pioneer, teacher and preacher — is now Blessed Fulton J.
- For the first time since the world watched as Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burned in the devastating 2019 fire, the pope stepped inside the famous gothic cathedral and called on Catholics in France to be “living stones” of a Church that bears witness to how God’s love restores and heals humanity.
- It was an emotional moment for many French Catholics as Pope Leo XIV led prayers Sept.
What's still developing
- “Being a businessman transcends profit, though profit is necessary, because the businessman, through his expertise and effort, creates jobs, goods, and services that benefit those who acquire them, and contributes to building societies that are more worthy of the human person,” he said.
- Global Sisters Report a project of National Catholic Reporter Contemplative orders — nuns who have largely withdrawn from the world — are at the heart of the church's mission, Pope Leo XIV told a group of Dominican contemplatives Sept. 30.
- One of the newest bishops Pope Leo XIV appointed in the U.S. said racism remains an undercurrent in the Catholic Church, recounting his own encounters with it in the seminary and calling for greater Black representation in the hierarchy, parish life and the church’s understanding of holiness.
- But while there are many good bishops in the United States, Bishop Boxie said he does not believe the hierarchy has always been sufficiently attentive to the concerns of Black Catholics and the broader Black community.
- Black Americans make up more than 15% of the U.S. population, according to the Census Bureau, and Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate determined that 5% of Catholics identify as Black.
- “We need the voice of African American bishops, men in the hierarchy, in the church structure, to be more of an advocate for the Black Catholic community,” Bishop Boxie said in the Sept. 7 interview.
- The Church has always proclaimed the need to protect and promote the inherent dignity of the human person, the bishop said, but Catholics have not always been faithful to that teaching.
- By then, the man was working at a Catholic school with many Black and Hispanic students.
- “Some people may believe I’ve been selected, picked, because I’m Black,” he said in an interview with Catholic News Service’s ‘Vatican Access.’ “I’ve thought about this, I’ve reflected on it, and you know what, I’m actually okay with that.” One of the newest bishops Pope Leo XIV appointed in the U.S.
- Both facts call us to an examination of conscience: Do we Catholics living in this nation at this moment in history believe it is our responsibility to see to it that all men worship the one true God revealed by Jesus Christ?
- “A Catholic who does not strive to spread his Faith,” said Sheen, “is a parasite on the life of the Church.” September 27, 2026 Peter M.J.