Efforts honored in black community

Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley is honoring two people for their service in the region's black Roman Catholic community.

O'Malley is scheduled to present the Bishop James Augustine Healy award to the Rev. Russell Best during a ceremony in Randolph on Saturday night. Sister Mary Hart is scheduled to receive the Robert Ruffin Award.

Hart is being honored for her work with the youth in Boston's Roxbury section.

Best is the former pastor of St. John-St. Hugh Church in the city's Dorchester neighborhood and the former youth services chaplain at Matignon and Cathedral high schools.

He's being honored for his caring and compassion for parishioners and his youth mentoring.