
Nicholas Black Elk (Lakota Medicine Man, Catholic Saint?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Nicholas Blackell's Conversion to Catholicism
Nicholas Blackell is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church. He used violence before he was a Christian, and became a man of peace after his conversion. The church should not be so crazy as to hold pre-conversion religious beliefs against their cause, says Pope Francis.
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Transcript

Two popular books held Lakota medicine man Black Elk as an icon of native American spirituality. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the truths those books suppressed about Nicholas Black Elk, especially his conversion and devout Catholic faith.
