Posted on 07/06/2020 9:47:56 AM PDT by ebb tide
Sorrow and hope — those are the emotions the head of the Catholic Church of D.C. used to describe how he feels during the current racial tumult.
“These times fill my heart with deep sorrow at the suffering of people in light of the pandemic, in light of the economic repercussions, and also in light of the obviously cruel and unjust murder of innocent people,” Archbishop Wilton Gregory, the highest-ranking Black leader in the U.S. church, said.
“But it also fills my heart with hope because, as we have seen, many of the protests have been a wonderful assembly of Americans across cultural, racial, age, regional and religious affiliations.”
Speaking during a Zoom conference hosted by the AJC, a global Jewish advocacy nonprofit, Gregory said he is hopeful the country has reached a plateau where it can work together to address some of the things that have been flash points and caused such national anxiety and angst.
“This is different, I think, I hope, than the civil rights era that produced some legislative initiatives that accomplished some important moments in our nation’s history,” Gregory said.
“I think this moment also offers us the possibility of changing hearts.”
He said unlike in the past, the call for change is not yet waning and the media is covering the movement at a level of intensity that he does not recall from the past.
“In addition to the protesters and the coverage of these events, there’s another investment that hadn’t taken place at this level in prior moments — the American business community is now responding. The sporting community is responding,” he said.
He is hopeful that when the nation begins to talk about the heavyweight realities that influence America so strongly, it could bring about real change.
That is something he hopes and prays for.
It will indeed - but not in the way he expects.
Ping
He must have failed the seminary’s courses on human nature.
This guy isn’t smart enough to know that it’s not about race. It’s about communism. But I suppose even if he had figured that out, he’d still choose to be on the side of the godless communists. Because they so cool.
Submit or else doesnt sound very Christian to me
The Queen of Denial indeed.
“Not for the better”.
The Archbishop is said to be known among his “closest friends” as “The African Queen”.
That, and he serves a different Master.
He must watch MSNBC and CNN and read the NYT and the WaPo exclussively?
I wonder if he saw this. Kids on a school trip harassed by a loser thug. https://twitter.com/i/status/1280171015700652033
Animal language alert.
It has changed my heart, but not in the way His Excellency means.
That would be the Bible.
Like showing people the path to faith by burning them alive?
That’s kind of my point.
Agreed. Catholics have deviated from the Bible, they worship idols... very bad stuff.
Wilton Gregory is part of the Lavender Mafia. He was head of the USCCB in 2003. The bishops covered up their dirty deeds, as confirmed by OK Gov. Frank Keating, head of the lay commission looking into abuse. Keating resigned and admonished the bishops in a scathing letter for acting like the mafia.
Gregory was groomed by the flaming homo Cardinal Bernardin, but never caught on the Joe was a poofter. Hmmmm.
All this and more is at rcf.org in Steve Brady’s newsletter from fall 2003.
They do not worship idols, FRiend. But some or even most of the hierarchy has lost its way.
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