The untold history of black nuns in the United States

Jesuitical

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🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ask most people what they know about black Catholic sisters, and they will probably murmur something about “Sister Act.” Dr. Shannen Dee Williams did, too, until she began digging into communities’ archives and uncovering the previously hidden lives of African-American women religious. Now she’s telling those stories in a forthcoming book (with an amazing title), Subversive Habits. Shannen tells us about the incredible resilience and deep faith of black Catholic women in the face of racism, discrimination and exclusion. We ask her how these stories affected her own faith and what racial reconciliation in the church looks like today. Have you checked out our Facebook page yet? Starting today, we’ll be asking for your consolations and desolations there. You can also find us on Twitter @jesuiticalshow, support us on Patreon and send us an email at jesuitical@americamedia.org. (Originally released June 22, 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How can Catholic people prepare for this year's election?
0:03.0	Sister Simone Campbell and renowned speakers will help us think.
0:06.2	Vatican Nuncio Christoph Pierre will help us pray.
0:09.4	Register for AUSCP's June assembly at aUSCP.org.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a from the young hip and lay editors of America media.
0:26.0	I am Zach Davis alone in the studio today.
0:29.0	Ashley is out this week on a reporting trip and as Ashley mentioned last week we are taking
0:35.5	some time right now to work on what the future Jesuitical is going to look like.
0:40.3	Don't worry, Jesuitical's best days are still ahead of us and we appreciate your
0:45.3	patience with us as we're taking some time to you know give you some great old
0:49.7	interviews as we plan for the future of the show. So this week we're
0:56.0	this week we're marking Black History Month. We thought it would be a good time to bring out our interview with Dr. Shannon D. Williams.
1:01.0	She is an assistant professor of history
1:03.4	at Villanova University, and her work
1:06.0	specializes in the untold history of black nuns
1:10.0	in the US Catholic Church.
1:12.1	She calls this a dangerous history for U.S. Catholics, right?
1:15.8	Because as we've covered on the show before, when we're looking at the ways that the Catholic
1:21.2	Church has been complicit in some time and also
1:23.8	led on racial issues in the United States. There are sins that need to be
1:27.4	reckoned with that haven't been reckoned with before, but also some really
1:30.4	inspiring stories and so Shannon D. Williams work is a great
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