Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience

by M. Shawn Copeland

Overview

An engaging study of black catholics, their contributions to the Catholic church, and the challenges they face. These essays describe the experience of black Catholics in this country since their arrival in North america in the sixteenth century ujtil the present day. The essays highlight the difficulties black Catholics faced in their early attempts to join churches and enter religious communities, their participation in the civil rights struggle, and the challenges they face today as they seek full inclusion in the church, whether in terms of liturgical practice or pastoral ministry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608333585
Publisher:	Orbis
Publication date:	11/20/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	691 KB

Table of Contents

Foreword Timothy Matovina ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction M. Shawn Copeland 1

Part I History

1 Relating Race and Religion Four Historical Models Albert J. Raboteau 9

2 The Difficulty of Our Situation The Oblate Sisters of Providence in Antebellum Society Diane Batts Morrow 26

3 Henriette Delille Servant of Slaves, Witness to the Poor Cyprian Davis 47

4 Dealing with Desegregation Black and White Responses to the Desegregation of the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, 1953 Cecilia A. Moore 63

5 Black Catholic Clergy and the Struggle for Civil Rights Winds of Change Katrina M. Sanders 78

Part II Theological and Ethical Reflection

6 Theology at the Crossroads A Meditation on the Blues M. Shawn Copeland 97

7 Daniel A. Rudd and His American Catholic Tribune Faithful and Prophetic in Passing on the Tradition LaReine-Marie Mosely 108

8 Communion Ecclesiology Implications for Ecclesial and Social Transformation in the Black Catholic Community Jamie T. Phelps 115

9 Faith of Our Mothers Catholic Womanist God-Talk Diana L. Hayes 129

10 HIV/AIDS and the Bodies of Black Peoples The Spirituals and Resurrection Faith Bryan N. Massingale 147

Part III Pastoral Concerns

11 Uncommon Faithfulness The Witness of African American Catholics Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory 169

12 African American Sacred Music in Catholic Worship Core of African American Survival in America Kevin P. Johnson 181

13 African Catholics in the United States Gifts and Challenges Paulinus I. Odozor 195

14 Pan-Africanism An Emerging Context for Understanding the Black Catholic Experience Clarence Williams 205

Contributors 223

Index 225