So we’re going back to segregation and not really considering blacks ordinary Americans Catholics but people who need an immigrant-style ethnic parish?
Sounds like racism to me.
My guess is that black Catholic can attend any church in Pittsburgh, but only black Catholics will be allowed in the black churches. Isn’t that how it usually works. They can segregate, but we can’t.
I’m guessing the Bishop doesn’t know that the word small c catholic means universal.
Yep, such freakin imbeciles it’s nuts
Blacks probably prefer this.
In Delcambre, LA a black parish exists literally 2 blocks from a white parish.
A few years ago, a vote was taken in both, to determine whether the parishes could merge. This was to save resources & because of a shortage of priests.
It didn’t matter if the desegregated parish would in future meet in the historically black church, or in the white one. The archdiocese would leave it to the parishioners to decide the details.
Well, the white folks mostly voted to desegregate,with a few dissenters, but the blacks voted 100% to remain segregated in their church 2 blocks away.
But there’s only 1 priest.
So, the white catholics have mass at 9 am, and the blacks at 10.
The priest grabs the Body & Blood of Christ and, with vestments streaming, runs like the dickens down the street, much to the amusement of the unchurched who like to sit watching from their front porches.