St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church
St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church is a Baptist church at 517 Blue Hill Ave in Boston, MA 02121-3203. It is one of 363 churches in Boston, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
517 Blue Hill Ave, Boston, MA, 02121-3203Phone: +16174458915 · Website: https://www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/drexel-village-gets-city-approval/
St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Massachusetts — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,600 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 43.2%
- Food Insecurity: 41.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.8%
- Child Poverty: 38.4% (21.9–54.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.7% (13.0–38.4%)
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (2.2–20.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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- St. Marks Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Healing Temple — 0.2 mi away
- The Church Of The Cosmic Revelation — 0.3 mi away
- New Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Hatian Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rehoboth Bethel Church — 0.3 mi away
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