Taking Down Our Harps: Black Catholics in the United States

Diana L. Hayes, a popular writer and speaker, is professor emerita of systematic theology, Georgetown University. She is the author of several books including Forged in the Fiery Furnace, Were You There: Stations of the Cross (both from Orbis), Hagar's Daughters and And Still We Both Rise (both from Paulist Press). She lives in Stone Mountain, GA. Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., is a Benedictine monk of St. Meinrad Archabbey and professor of church history at St. Meinrad School of Theology. A founding member of National Black Catholic Clergy, he is the author of The History of Black Catholics in the United States (Crossroad).