Augustine Tolton was born into slavery, escaped to freedom as a child during the Civil War, and became the first African-American priest in the Roman Catholic Church. This week, he took the first step toward becoming its first African-American saint.https://nyti.ms/2F5i6vJ
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oh, certainly! it was a pretty mainstream view then as it is now.
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