GREAT FAULTS BUT WE ARE OUT OF TIME.

I THINK TREVOR DANIELS AND RACHEL BASS.

>>> THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST IS ON THE ROAD TO SAINTHOOD.

IS JOURNEY FROM ENSLAVED CHILD TO PRIEST IS THE SUBJECT OF A SERIES OF EVENTS AT THE HERITAGE CENTER.

BISHOP JOSEPH PERRY WHO IS LEADING THE CAUSE SAYS THERE ARE MANY REASONS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MAN AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS GOOD FATHER GUSTS.

>> WE ARE AT SAINT ELIZABETH'S CHURCH WHICH IS NOW THE TILTON HERITAGE CENTER.

FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRIEST ¿ CHICAGO.

ARE REALLY THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRIEST TO SERVE IN THE UNITED STATES ANYWHERE.

HE WAS A FORMER SLAVE.

HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI DURING THE TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR.

IT IS A FIVE-PART SERIES THAT DELVES INTO THE LIFE IN THE BACKGROUND COMING FROM THE 19th CENTURY AND LOOKING INTO HIS VIRTUES THAT FORMED A DOSSIER FOR HIS CANONIZATION AS A SAINT WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

TWO SPREAD THE STORY TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE ACQUAINTED WITH HIM AND WHY HE IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT FIGURE IN OUR HISTORY NOT ONLY IN THE PAST BUT CARRYING A MESSAGE FOR THE PRESENT.

GIVEN THE STRUGGLES THAT WE HAVE TODAY.

RACISM TODAY STILL -- HE GIVES US EXAMPLES OF HOW WE HANDLE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE AND WALKING THE GAUNTLET OF UPS AND DOWNS AND SORROWS AND JOYS OF LIFE HE DID IT HEROICALLY AS A CHRISTIAN AND PROVED HIMSELF A CHRISTIAN AND ALL OF THAT AND HE WAS OPEN TO EVERYBODY, WHITE AND BLACK.

OUR PREVIOUS ARCHBISHOP, CARDINAL GEORGE BACK IN 2010, IT WAS THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY WHICH CAME OUT AND ABOUT 1973.

IT WAS TITLED FROM SLAVE TO PRIEST AND HE WAS SO TOUCHED BY THE STORY HE REMARKED TO ME ONE DAY THAT HE WAS GOING TO ASK THE VATICAN IF THEY WOULD CONSIDER NAMING HIM A SAINT AND THAT IS HOW IT STARTED.

I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT HIM AND FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND EVEN ELDERLY PEOPLE, HE'S A GREAT HUMAN BEING, A GREAT CHRISTIAN AND SOMEONE WHO HAS A MESSAGE THAT STILL TOUCHES THE WORLD AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN