Father Augustine Tolton is on the path to sainthood. The Pilot has an article on this saintly priest. He is touted as the first African/American priest. And technically, as we know from reading, Passing for White by James O'Toole, Tolton is not. James Healy was. James, Sherwood, and Patrick Healy were African/American priests. But as the book Passing for White relates, the Healy children did not identify themselves as African/American, but rather as Irish/American. They passed for white.The Healys lived in the same era as Father Tolton. I wonder what they thought of him. Did they ever cross paths?
