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Black Catholics Triumphant |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Lucy Mazareski |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,517 Words, 15,730 Characters |
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THE HISTORY OF BLACK CATHOLICS IN THE UNITED STATES
Cyprian Davis, O. S. B.
New York: Crossroad, 1992
347 pp., $24.95
The status, role, and contributions of black Christians in mainline churches remains a largely neglected chapter in U.S. church history. Perhaps nowhere is this more the case than in the U.S. Catholic Church. Cyprian Davis, a black Benedictine monk and professor of church history, offers a meticulously researched chronicle that all too often is revealed as one of institutional indifference, or at times hostility, brightened in places by individuals of faith, and kept alive by the often intense loyalty of the black Catholic faithful.
Black Catholic history in America began with the arrival of African slaves in the New World with the Catholic Spanish conquerors...
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...e. They played a major role in dividing the nation into the two camps in the Civil War that claimed 600,000 lives and left a million maimed and injured. The hateful, hurtful legacy of America's cold profiting from slavery is still with us. But the lessons of the past centuries seem finally learned; America's churches are in the vanguard now of the long healing, reconciling, unifying process.
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