Black and Catholic in Omaha: A Case of Double Jeopardy: The First Fifty Years of St. Benedict the Moor Parish

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Black and Catholic in Omaha: A Case of Double Jeopardy examines an area of American life that has gotten little attention-that of a black Catholic community in a predominantly white church and society.Writer Jack Angus has spent more than a decade participating within the life of this parish whilst conducting his research. The result’s a reconstruction of the first fifty years of the difficult journey from mission to mainstream Catholic for St. Benedict the Moor Parish and its people.The tale is replete with examples of difficulties experienced not only with white people normally, but with other Catholics-both clerical and laity-as well. On the same time, there are also examples of friendship and reinforce from these same quarters.The Writer recounts the faith journey which a handful of Catholic pariahs, and a lone evangelizing Jesuit priest, undertook on a cold, raw, rainy December day in Omaha, Nebraska. It could take them through financial depression, war, flood, and riots; and bring them to a new and greater sense of their very own heritage.Interested lay persons, students, and academics pursuing community studies- Black and Catholic in Omaha: A Case of Double Jeopardy is for you.

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