Posted on 06/18/2020 4:37:58 PM PDT by ebb tide
(Barf Alert from the United States Conference of Socialist Bishops)
This Guide was prepared to assist Catholics and people of good will in reflecting on the evil and harm of racism. While this is not a comprehensive list, it provides actionable steps that may assist Catholics to reflect and respond in faith. With the aid of Holy Scripture, Catholic social teaching, and sacred tradition, this is an open invitation to journey toward reconciliation.
Racism is evil because it attacks the inherent dignity of the human person, created in the image and likeness of God. The persistence of racism demands our attention now. Racism emerges in the actions and inactions of individuals; and it is embedded in our institutions and public policies. Our faith calls us both to personal conversion and to transformation of our society.
The following are some actionable steps pastors and their communities may undertake to this end:
1. Read (or re-read) Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love – A Pastoral Letter Against Racism using the accompanying Study Guide. Visit usccb.org/racism.
2. Create various large and small group opportunities for family and community members to process their feelings in the midst of news and commentary about vulnerable populations and law enforcement. Encourage participants to reflect or share their own upbringing regarding comments in the home, from parents and individuals, media and entertainment, even practices of the Church about the merits or demerits of certain groups of people made to be “the other.” Ask. “How have I knowingly or unconsciously made this formation part of my world view? Where could I have spoken up but didn’t?”
3. Arrange a safe space for young people to reflect and pray about racism and recent events. Listen to the current experiences of young people. Encourage and allow their creative expression. Invite them to generate methodologies that are meaningful to them.
4. Attend an intergenerational interracial virtual town hall discussion on racism. Respect that for some African Americans, Hispanics and others, talking about personal racial experiences in a mixed race setting is painful as it is like reopening a wound that hadn’t fully healed.
5. Use a pastoral and non-partisan lens to respond to concerns of family and community members about racism, policing and public safety. Do not politicize this. Lean on Gospel values, instead.
6. Contact your pastor, parish council or diocesan office to discuss possible ways to dialogue with local law enforcement. Some community organizations funded by the bishops through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) are leading these efforts in their communities. See what is happening near you.
7. Learn about structural racism and its roots in in your community and get involved in the work to address it. It might look like housing discrimination that continues to contribute to segregated communities or disparateaccess to quality education.
8. Invite your parish to incorporate regular dialogue among parishioners about their experiences with racism, prejudice and racial discrimination.
9. Invite your parish or faith-sharing group to host a conversation with a group of African American, Latino, Indigenous or African men and/or young people about their personal experiences with law enforcement. 10.Encourage religious education classes and faith-sharing groups, as well as priests and deacons at your parish to speak out against racism and for personal responsibility to eradicate it. With children, use the storybook Everyone Belongsas a starting point for conversation. With teens and adults, explore how anti-racism actionlooks. Continue to study and understand racism as it manifested in the past and does so today.
Copyright © 2020, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. All rights reserved. This text may be reproduced in whole or in part without alteration for nonprofit educational use, provided such reprints are not sold and include this notice. This resource was developed by the Subcommittee on African American Affairs, Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church. This resource and many others are available at usccb.org/racism.
Ping
It’s a cult.
I don’t disagree with this in an abstract sense but racism is such a small issue nowadays its hardly worth discussing considering all the real evil going around in the world (especially “white racism”).
1. Black Pope
2. Lots of black Cardinals
3. Lots of black Bishops
Soft touch cancel culture in the church.
Apparently Catholic missionaries were converted to Red Guards in China and brought back their tactics. Shaming, public confessions and struggle sessions were all tools to obtain submission during the Cultural Revolution.
Some of then were Irish and they suffered racial discrimination. Who is going to shine my shoes? Who is going to pay me reparations?
I grew up in a small town with only one junior high school and one high school. The town was fairly industrialized and was very integrated for its size. We had blacks, Mexicans, Porta Ricans, and even Vietnamese.
I never had any racial animus toward anyone.
I lived in a lower middle class neighborhood growing up and lived next door to blacks and Hispanics. One of my first friends was of Mexican decent. I walked to school with him everyday.
I saw black that could not cope in school and I saw blacks that excelled. As far as I could see nothing stood in the way of blacks that was systemic. I as far as my high school was concerned it was up to the student where they would end up academically.
After I graduated high school things were slanted in favor of blacks in getting jobs. A friend of mine was black balled from getting into the electrician’s union because he was white and had graduated Cum Loudi from trade school.
So, they are not getting any traction with me on how the blacks are discriminated against. In my experience they are favorably discriminated for.
The thing that is on my mind these days is what is to be done about the racism in the Black community against pretty much everyone else?
Every bishop who signed this has excommunicated himself.
The anti-white racism of the Catholic church has become completely institutionalized. Yet another entity has been taken over by leftists.
JoMa
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