Today's podcast is part two of a two-part conversation with members of the Social Justice Committee at St. Ann's Catholic Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

Join host Marsha Thrall, and guests Delores Moore, Ralph Moore, and Mary Sewell as they discuss  St. Ann's initiative of Santo Subito (or "Saint right away") canonization for six African American candidates for sainthood.

This initiative has received national attention and has been the focus of a November 2021 Washington Post article.

 

 

Book Recommendations:

 

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle – Shannen Dee Williams

 

Black Catholics on the Road to Sainthood – Edited by Michael R. Heinlen

 

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America – by Michael Eric Dyson

 

A Black Theology of Liberation – James Cone

 

God of the Oppressed – James Cone

 

Articles and Resources from the Web:

 

https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/there-are-no-african-american-saints-lay-catholic-group-seeks-change

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/baltimore-group-pushes-to-expedite-sainthood-for-six-black-catholic-heroes/2021/11/01/aecec68c-3b1f-11ec-a493-51b0252dea0c_story.html

 

https://afro.com/the-moore-report-holy-bad-attitudes-and-behaviors-subversive-habits-a-book-about-white-racism-among-nuns-in-the-catholic-church/

 

https://afro.com/there-once-were-three-black-popes-will-there-be-more/

 

https://afro.com/could-jim-crow-achieve-sainthood-before-the-six-worthy-black-candidates-in-waiting/

 

Films:

 

https://www.fspa.org/news/thea-bowman-documentary-airs-this-fall

 

https://www.blackcatholicmessenger.com/a-place-at-the-table-review/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CA%20Place%20At%20the%20Table,six%20venerated%20US%20Black%20Catholics.