California Bishops Listen to Two Laywomen and Priest for Three Hours on Racism

California Catholic Daily ^ | 9/16/20

[marshmallow]

Seek to “root out racist thinking and practices"

The California bishops met Wednesday African American Catholic leaders to begin a year-long initiative meant better to understand and combat racism.

The Sept. 9 meeting occurred on the feast of St. Peter Claver, which numerous U.S. dioceses and Catholic organizations observed as a day of fasting and prayer to end racism.

The bishops said they were “meeting with African American Catholic leaders to begin a journey aimed at converting our hearts to more fully understand the extent and nature of the sin of racism in ourselves, our Church and our nation.”

“This journey is intended to offer tangible change, in which the bishops, together with the clergy, religious and faithful of California participate,” they said.

For three hours last week, the 25 bishops of California listened to two laywomen and a priest convey moments of racism they experienced either inside or outside the Catholic Church.

“The people shared from their heart. Some of the things were pretty tough to listen to,” said Steve Pehanich, director of communications for the California Catholic Conference.

“The bishops were touched. There were some tears. There were some hard to bear moments, but I think they really appreciated it,” he added, according to Angelus News.

The bishops said the first step of the initiative is to listen to the accounts of racism. They said it is important to first understand internal sins before addressing the sins of society.

[MAGAthon]

17 Sept: Breitbart: ‘All Our Thoughts Are Offensive and Should be Corrected’: Tory MP Refuses to Take ‘Unconscious Bias Training’
by Kurt Zindulka
A leading Tory MP announced he will refuse to partake in the Black Lives Matter inspired ‘unconscious bias training’ in the House of Commons.
Former vice-chairman of the Conservative Party and MP for Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, Ben Bradley said that the move to introduce the training was a signal of how groupthink has infected the metropolitan elite in London, including “the BBC, the British Library, or even government departments”...

“Let me be clear right from the off; I will not be taking it,” Bradley pronounced.
The Tory MP said that he felt the idea of elected politicians being “educated” on the propper opinions to hold is undemocratic, questioning: “Who gets to decide which issues or views are appropriate for me to raise on behalf of my constituents?”...
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/17/tory-mp-refuses-to-take-unconscious-bias-training/

[Pontiac]

For three hours last week, the 25 bishops of California listened to two laywomen and a priest convey moments of racism they experienced either inside or outside the Catholic Church.

Sorry, the exception does not prove the rule.

If the racism occurred outside the Church it is not within the power of the Bishops to rectify the error.

Three hours!!!

I would have very quickly lost patience with these whiners.

[cradle of freedom]

Have they ever done this for the deadly sin of abortion?

As far as ending racism, it is a sin like any other and there is no ending sin, it cannot be wiped out from society. Has the church ever put this much effort trying to wipe out any kind of sin?

[chajin]

I don’t know how better to speak the truth in love...

The leadership of the Catholic church is filled with fools, frauds, and heretics. That the laity put up with this perpetual heetical foolishness is truly depressing. God promises that judgment begins with the church, which makes me very fearful for my Catholic brethren.

[Nifster]

And we’re the speakers white?