e, for no fewer than three of their sons became Catholic priests, and all three had fairly prominent careers in the Catholic Church. One of James Augustine's brothers, Sherwood, became a theologian and rector of Boston Cathedral. Another, Patrick, became Rector of America's oldest Catholic university, Georgetown University. He served from 1873 to 1882, and was so important in the school's development that he became known as Georgetown's "second founder" (Johnson, 1978: 127).
Bishop Healy's career is bound up wth the early experience of African American Catholics, so it is worth while to say something about Catholicism in the African American community. For the most part, African Americans were and remain evangelical Protestants, and certainly that is central to our popular image of the "black church." Protestant clergymen were always prominent in the civil rights movement at every period of its history, and Pr
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