On Easter Sunday in 2010, nineteen elementary and middle school students in the District of Columbia awoke to find themselves featured in The Washington Post.1 These children had captured the newspaper’s attention because the previous night they became members of the Catholic Church. During the Easter Vigil at St. Augustine’s, “the mother church of Black Catholics” in the nation’s capital, these girls and boys received the sacraments of baptism and holy communion. All of these new Catholics attended St. Augustine parochial school where non-Catholic children constituted the majority. However, on their first day back at school after the Easter Vigil, the number of Catholic students enrolled at St. Augustine’s rose from 51 to 70 out of a total of 185.