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- Title
Catholic Social Teaching, Vatican II, and Civil Rights: A Social Justice Trinity in the Fight to Save a Central Louisiana Black Catholic School.
- Authors
Sanders, Katrina M.
- Abstract
On March 23, 1971, the pastor of St. James Memorial Catholic Church in Alexandria, Louisiana conceded in a letter to Alexandria's bishop, Charles P. Greco, that his congregation's segregated back school would permanently close at the end of the school year. The planned closure brought heartache for all immediate stakeholders-clergy, religious sisters, and especially the lay faithful of the church. Less than one month later the congregation's parish council presented Greco with a plan they argued could save the school from closure. The council's attempt to thwart the closure provides an interesting local history case study that illuminates how black Catholics in the South during the period following the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) utilized the language and emphases of Vatican II, Black Power and civil rights, and the Church's commitment to education and social justice in an effort to maintain the availability of Catholic education in their community.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CATHOLIC Christian sociology; CIVIL rights; SOCIAL justice; VATICAN Council (2nd : 1962-1965); SEGREGATION in education; GRECO, Charles P.; AFRICAN American Catholics; HISTORY; AFRICAN American history; HISTORY of segregation; HISTORY of civil rights
- Publication
U.S. Catholic Historian, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
0735-8318
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cht.2015.0010