The Black Catholics who built the American Church

By Father Leonard Gicheru | Catholic Key

What if some of the most important builders of the Catholic Church in America are people many Catholics have never heard of? The story of Black Catholics in the United States is often told as a story of exclusion — and certainly there was exclusion. But it is also a story of building. Black Catholics built schools, religious communities, parishes, charitable organizations and institutions that continue to serve the Church today.