There is a problem of acceptance. When I was growing up, we had missionaries from Ireland and France...and we were happy to receive them...then we came over here, and instead of being missionaries, we become 'imported personnel.' A priest from Ghana.
As a foreigner, you know that your voice is always somebody coming from outside. The pastor will say 'That's good in your country, but here we are in America'....Emotionally that puts you a little bit down. A priest from Argentina.
The politics in the Church here are terrible...If you are a Hispanic, you are not complete. A priest from Colombia
All American priests should go abroad for two years....They don't see the uncomfortableness, the anxiety that priests from abroad have. A priest from Australia
There are some people who ask, 'Where is our priest?' And the foreign priest is just standing right there, and it's a black guy. He says, 'Hey, I'm a priest.' But the people say, 'No, our kind.' A priest from the Phillipines.
These quotes are taken from International Priests; New Ministers in the Catholic Church in the United States, manuscript by Dean Hoge and Amedi Okore.
Hey, we Anglo-Saxons (plus Irish plus French) are supposed to be the missionaries and convert the savages into eating with a knife and fork. The religion of the Holy Roman Empire can't be just franchised abroad and then sold back to us by hungry immigrants seeking a passport. Gosh, they want our land, our jobs, our women .... now our souls!