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. By this Author Nov 06, 2021 History of white evangelical racism also implicates Catholics, scholar saysScholar 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.