Uncommon Faithfulness The Black Catholic Experience

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction M. Shawn Copeland HISTORY Relating Race and Religion 9 Four Historical Models Albert}. Raboteau The Difficulty of Our Situation 26 The Oblate Sisters of Providence in Antebellum Society Diane Batts Morrow Henriette Delille 47 Servant of Slaves, Witness to the Poor Cyprian Davis, O.S.B. Dealing with Desegregation 63 Black and White Responses to the Desegregation of the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, 1953 Black Catholic Clergy and the Struggle for Civil Rights 78 Winds of Change Katrina M. Sanders THEOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL REFLECTION Theology at the Crossroads A Meditation on the Blues M. Shawn Copeland Daniel A. Rudd and His American Catholic Tribune 108 Faithful and Prophetic in Passing on the Tradition LaReine-Marie Mosely, S.N.D. Communion Ecclesiology 115 Implications for Ecclesial and Social Transformation in the Black Catholic Community Jamie T. Phelps, O.P. Faith of Our Mothers 129 Catholic Womanist God-Talk Diana L. Hayes HIV/AIDS and the Bodies of Black Peoples 147 The Spirituals and Resurrection Faith Bryan N. Massingale PASTORAL CONCERNS Uncommon Faithfulness 169 The Witness of African American Catholics Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory African American Sacred Music in Catholic Worship 181 Core of African American Survival in America Kevin P. Johnson African Catholics in the United States 195 Gifts and Challenges Paulinus I. Odozor, C.S.Sp. Pan-Africanism 205 An Emerging Context for Understanding the Black Catholic Experience Clarence Williams, C.P.P.S.