The Catholic Church Has A Visible White Power Faction

[Guest]

https://sojo.net/magazine/august-2020/catholic-church-has-visible-white-power-faction

"When the U.S. Catholic bishops gathered to draft a document on race in the wake of the 2017 white terrorist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Bishop Anthony Taylor of Little Rock, Ark., submitted an amendment to condemn the imagery of swastikas, Confederate flags, and nooses. The U.S. bishops deliberated and voted to reject it."

 

"The gospel at its best deals with the whole man, not only his soul but also his body, not only his spiritual well-being but also his mental well being. A religion that professes a concern for the souls of men and is not equally concerned about the slums that beaver dam them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them, is a spiritually morbid religion." - Martin Luther King Jr.

[Aloysius]

it is strange to find Catholics who have any kind of 'white' nationalism in America knowing that most Catholic immigrants to the country were not considered white when they came to America--Irish, Italians, Polish, Eastern Europeans, etc etc., none of them were considered truly 'white' until relatively recently.

I personally don't like all this reduction down to symbols and needing to condemn them to signal one's proper virtue as a real and woke anti-racist, I personally don't think much good is being done on that front, while it's maybe a bit strange they didn't specifically approve that amendment--it was in a document against racism that is clearly against racism.  the demand for conformity and uniformity in the expressions of being against racism that we're experiencing now is troubling--getting rid of racism is about stopping unjust persecutions of other races and freeing people from the demonic scourges of hate in their hearts.  there are many cultural battles and symbolic battles to be had, but this "they didn't approve this one amendment so they're basically completely racist" attitude doesn't make sense to me when the whole document condemns racism.

anyway, any 'catholics' who harbor some kind of 'white pride' or 'white nationalism' or any other such nonsense i'd only have on thing to say: please repent and believe in the gospel.  "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

Some wisdom from Chesterton for anyone who thinks their race makes them superior in any way, that's basically idolatry, as GK Chesterton put it: "the curse of race religion is that it makes each separate man the sacred image which he worships. His own bones are the sacred relics; his own blood is the blood of St. Januarius."

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btw I just looked through the document referenced, Open Wide Our Hearts, and it seems very strongly worded to me. 

http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/racism/upload/open-wide-our-hearts.pdf

 

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[fides' Jack]

I don't believe there are any Catholics like that.  Or if there are,  you can probably count them on your fingers.

[Ash Wednesday]

The label of being "Catholic" doesn't hold the same weight to many that it used to. A lot of people call themselves "Catholic" but it doesn't mean they hold true Catholic beliefs, especially when they adopt mortally sinful platforms at the far ends of the political spectrum. Much like an abortion rights activist on the left that identifies as "Catholic" -- a neo-nazi or any other member of a racist hate group that identifies as "Catholic" on the right should not be considered to be in good standing with the Church. 

It's a pretty big reach for this article to feature Heimbach because he was "raised Catholic" -- being "raised Catholic" doesn't necessarily mean squat about their identity as a Catholic as far as what path they choose in adulthood. It's also worth noting that he is estranged from his family, so they really shouldn't portray him as someone that is widely accepted in Catholic circles or involved in the Church when he's not even on good terms with his own family.