Posted on 10/12/2016 7:06:53 PM PDT by ebb tide
The litany included:
– “For all the times we have not welcomed others to our parishes, especially for the times we have refused to allow African-American Catholics into our parish communities.”
Each invocation was answered with “Kyrie eleison.”
The litany included:
– “For ignoring the word of God, living and effective, and hiding behind policies and procedures.”
– “For our failures to take to heart the Lord’s condemnation of those who scandalise ‘the little ones,’ and for failing to protect children from sexual abuse.”
– “For all the times we have not welcomed others to our parishes, especially for the times we have refused to allow African-American Catholics into our parish communities.”
Each invocation was answered with “Kyrie eleison.”
The “Mass for Pardon” on October 7 at the cathedral is a step on the archdiocese’s path to “unleash the Gospel,” Archbishop Vigneron explained, saying how the Mass was a necessary step on the road to becoming a “band of joyful missionary disciples.”
“We have been summoned by Pope Francis to do what it takes to be a band of joyful missionary disciples,” Archbishop Vigneron said. “And that is what tonight is about. We have been summoned in a very particular way.”
RIDICULOUS! Christe eleison!
Yet Papa Tango declares:
“proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense.”
The watchword of FrancisChurch: Talk about anything but abortion.
Translation: Forgive us for the Traditionalists who follow doctrine
– “For our failures to take to heart the Lord’s condemnation of those who scandalise ‘the little ones,’ and for failing to protect children from sexual abuse.”
Translation: Forgive us for the pedophile priest scandal
– “For all the times we have not welcomed others to our parishes, especially for the times we have refused to allow African-American Catholics into our parish communities.”
Translation: Forgive us for listening to racist Republicans... seriously, who has barred the door to anyone at Church?! This is a significant issue for the Church?!
Are we NOT called to REPENTANCE and CONVERSION?
I don’t know about you, but I have never not allowed any Catholic Afro-American into my “catholic community”; and I’m not about to repent for something I never did.
And unlike Francis and his pathetic bishops, I will not apologize for my Catholic predecessors who fought in the Crusades.
I do regret the Fourth Crusade sacking Constantinople.
It is one of the things I have long admired about the RCC and something they have been admirably consistent on. Sometimes while under some major political pressure.
The first Catholic parochial schools in the U.S., as founded by St. Elizabeth Seton, had black and white students. And this was early-1800's, pre-Civil-War.
There certainly were Catholic segregationists in the South. Archbishop Joseph Rummel (Diocese of Baton Rouge) publicly excommunicated Louisiana politician Leander Perez and a few others, around 1960, for opposing the desegregation of Catholic schools. It's quite a dramatic story if you want to look it up.
When MY MOTHER was attending parochial schools up North in the 1920's and 30's, her Catholic schools (grade school and high school) were the only ones in the city which mixed children of different races.
'Course Polacks, Italians and Sicilians were thought of as different "races," too... :o0
While all Roman Catholics have not been perfect the leadership has been pretty consistent on race being unimportant.
As a devout Roman Catholic I have become weary of shepherds who insist upon being horse’s asses.
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