In Catholic books, an African American perspective is usually missing; these two books attempt to address that important gap in different and complementary ways.
Two books look at Black Catholic experience from different angles
New book points to need for racial reckoning in women’s religious orders
“Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle,” which comes out in May, is the result of more than a dozen years of research and oral history interviews.