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Carol Kuruvilla

Carol Kuruvilla is a freelance journalist based in the New York City area. She most recently worked as a religion reporter for HuffPost.

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President Trump, left, sits before delivering the keynote address at Liberty University’s commencement in Lynchburg, Va., on May 13, 2017. Seated on the right is Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)

History of white evangelical racism also implicates Catholics, scholar says

Scholar and author Anthea Butler says it's impossible to tell the history of American evangelicalism without acknowledging how racism helped shape its theology, institutions and culture. The U.S. Catholic Church shares this history, she adds.

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