The Arc of the Moral universe is long and bends towards justice. I hope faith, and the courage to pray for my African American, brothers and sisters. My prayers also got to Pope Leo, and the Catholic community. Thank you for your letters to Pope.
This is impactful Chris. Your story needs to be shared. I grew up in St Louis, which has always been very racist even though it’s the Midwest. The cardinals desegregated all the Catholic Churches and schools after WWII. Failure to comply was automatic excommunication. I went to an all girls desegregated Catholic high school. I was in high school during the 60s-70. We had peace masses in the gym one a month in support of civil rights and against the war in Vietnam. The lessons I learned from the priests, nuns and classmates are still with me today. All people are equal and need to be treated with respect and dignity.
This is strong and clear and wonderful. THANK YOU for writing it! Will share, and hope it reaches some of the people who do not seem to understand the Gospel. Yes, to show even more tenderness to the broken and forgotten, especially the ones who are consistently undervalued is Jesus' request that we follow Him.
Black Lives Matter as a sentence certainly is moral and shouldn’t need to be said to claim dignity for people of color. But as the name of the activists pushing anarchy and violence during the Michael Brown death in Ferguson, MO. it is a crime. Also, the real reason that this statement came into being was as protection to trans- sexual people of color is moral but also racist. The pope and this author are mincing words with reality so disingenuous.
I agree. Jesus would tell the modern-day Pharisees that if the evidence indicates one segment of society’s lives don’t matter, all lives don’t matter; only certain lives matter.
Jesus would probably advocate for that segment of the society until they’re accepted & acknowledged that their lives matter according to evidence not platitudes.
Jesus might have said that if you think anyone’s life doesn’t matter, no one’s life really matters to you.
The Arc of the Moral universe is long and bends towards justice. I hope faith, and the courage to pray for my African American, brothers and sisters. My prayers also got to Pope Leo, and the Catholic community. Thank you for your letters to Pope.
This is impactful Chris. Your story needs to be shared. I grew up in St Louis, which has always been very racist even though it’s the Midwest. The cardinals desegregated all the Catholic Churches and schools after WWII. Failure to comply was automatic excommunication. I went to an all girls desegregated Catholic high school. I was in high school during the 60s-70. We had peace masses in the gym one a month in support of civil rights and against the war in Vietnam. The lessons I learned from the priests, nuns and classmates are still with me today. All people are equal and need to be treated with respect and dignity.
"All lives matter."
-Mayor Pete Buttegieg
PREACH! Educate those that do not know the truth! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Oh how I wish everyone that claims to be Christian know the truth. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This is impactful - memorable. Thank you for sharing!
This is strong and clear and wonderful. THANK YOU for writing it! Will share, and hope it reaches some of the people who do not seem to understand the Gospel. Yes, to show even more tenderness to the broken and forgotten, especially the ones who are consistently undervalued is Jesus' request that we follow Him.
Black Lives Matter as a sentence certainly is moral and shouldn’t need to be said to claim dignity for people of color. But as the name of the activists pushing anarchy and violence during the Michael Brown death in Ferguson, MO. it is a crime. Also, the real reason that this statement came into being was as protection to trans- sexual people of color is moral but also racist. The pope and this author are mincing words with reality so disingenuous.
I agree. Jesus would tell the modern-day Pharisees that if the evidence indicates one segment of society’s lives don’t matter, all lives don’t matter; only certain lives matter.
Jesus would probably advocate for that segment of the society until they’re accepted & acknowledged that their lives matter according to evidence not platitudes.
Jesus might have said that if you think anyone’s life doesn’t matter, no one’s life really matters to you.
Thank you for telling the story of Fr. Durick for this holiday in honor of Dr. King!