Dear Editor,
Thank you for helping us survive 2020! You’re the best!
M.G. New York, NY
Dear Editor,
Thank you for your insightful newsletter. Always good to read your logical and faithful lines. I just want to add a few words. Black Lives Matter has been robbed of its initial meaning. Unfortunately, many people are called RACIST if they don’t support the “organization.” I assure you that most people who support “BLM” do not know or understand its real Marxist motives. The devil seems to have the upper hand, but we know the end of the story.
One thing I do want to make you aware of, as an African American Catholic, is that our society, and our Church, was, and is very racist. I grew up in a neighborhood where about 50% of the African Americans were Catholic. Now this was a result of the fact that the parents and/or parents’ parents worked for the landowners in Maryland.
Racism is ugly and it’s hard to face, but here’s a real truth. When I went to college in the 60’s (historical black college in Petersburg, VA), when it was time for Sunday Mass, a bus came to get the Catholics and take us to the nearest Catholic Church. When we arrived, we were told that we could not sit in the church and we were sent upstairs to the empty choir loft where someone brought us Communion.
This was before there were extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion. Many, if not most, of those young college students left the Church and began to attend the local black Protestant churches.
This is only one incident, but I want you to know that racism in the church is real. I love Jesus more than I am affected by the ignorance of hatred, so I never even thought of leaving the one true Church. The bishop kneeling (photo of Bishop Seitz of El Paso kneeling for BLM in Volume 25, #1) is so very out of touch. Unfortunately, some look back on their own racist behavior and the guilt of Satan overtakes their sense of reality.
May God help us all, and may we stand up for Jesus or fall for anything. Thanks for listening.
D.N. Northern VA