New Orleans Catholics and the early years of desegregation.

Explores the contentious debates among Black Catholics about the proper relationship between religious practice and racial identity Chicago has been known as th

Before Vatican II, before the race riots of the 1940s, the white Jesuit priest John Lafarge decried America’s treatment of blacks. In the first scholarly biog

How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to t