"To Show the Diversity of Black Religious Experience in America"

"When I tell people that I study black Catholics, most kind of blink their eyes and go, 'What?' We assume Catholicism is European in its essence, and that black people are Protestants. But the majority of black Christians in the Western hemisphere are actually Catholic, and the majority of Catholics in the Western hemisphere and the Americas are not white."

Emma Green at The Atlantic interviews Matthew Cressler, author of Authentically Black and Truly Catholic.