Abstract
This essay links the current decline of black Catholicism to the racial slavery practiced in Roman Catholicism at its settlement in the USA. Employing missiological anthropological analysis, Assenyoh, S.V.D., argues that the racism that characterized the beginning of New World slavery remains in the Church and accounts for the decline of black Catholicism. Assenyoh calls for persistent critiques of racial slavery in the Church’s history if there must be transformation rather than reformation.
Recommended Citation
Assenyoh, Kwame S.V.D.
(2010)
"The Decline of Black Catholicism: What’s Racial Slavery To Do With It?,"
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium: Vol. 4, Article 12.
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https://ecommons.udayton.edu/jbcts/vol4/iss1/12
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