National Catholic Reporter: Why Pew’s new study on Black Catholicism is critical for US church leaders

My entire career has been about ending the erasure of Black Catholics from academic and public discourse. A refrain I’ve heard throughout my career across religious and racial lines is “I didn’t know there were any Black Catholics.” After more than 20 years of doing this work, this refrain persists despite the decades of brilliant, influential work by Black Catholics on Black Catholicism.