Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. “A New Virility”: The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and a New Catholic Mission
1. “Go Ye Forth and Teach All Nations”: Mother Katharine Drexel’s Challenge to the Catholic Church
2. “Received from Other Sources”: Mother Katharine Drexel and the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions
3. “Souls! Souls! Should Be Our Cry, Our Ambition, Our Only Aim”: SBS Administration of Indigenous Schools
4. Intent and Impact: Assessing SBS Indigenous Missions
5. Human Rights and Sacramental Rites: SBS Missions in Black Communities
6. Navigating Race and Religion in Jim Crow Louisiana
7. The Catholic Rosenwald: Mother Katharine Schools in Rural Louisiana
8. From Spiritual to Temporal Needs: The Evolution of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and Catholic Social Justice
9. “These Kluxes Are All Wrought Up”: Battling the “Catholic Problem” and Conflicting Visions of America
Conclusion
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