Black and Catholic in Omaha

<i>Black and Catholic in Omaha: A Case of Double Jeopardy</i> examines an area of American life that has gotten little attention--that of a black Catholic community in a predominantly white church and society.</p><p>Author Jack Angus has spent more than a decade participating in the life of this parish while conducting his research. The result is 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.</p><p>The story is replete with examples of difficulties experienced not only with white people in general but with other Catholics--both clerical and laity--as well. At the same time there are also examples of friendship and support from these same quarters.</p><p>The author 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 would take them through financial depression war flood and riots; and bring them to a new and greater sense of their own heritage.</p><p>Interested lay persons students and academics pursuing community studies-- <i>Black and Catholic in Omaha: A Case of Double Jeopardy</i> is for you.</p>