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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Adorable kiddies.
Great point.
There’s an oddity out in corporate America today. Companies may hire black immigrants over white nonimmigrants for “diversity, equity and inclusion”. They’re black, and reparations is the goal of course.
The oddity is, the black immigrant’s ancestors may very well have participated in slavery, loading their brothers and sisters on the boat to America. Whereas the white nonimmigrant’s ancestors may have fought and died to end the practice of slavery. These facts are of no concern or mention.
No person should be held responsible for either the good or bad their ancestors may or may not have done.
Just the facts, ma’am.
[Expletive-deleted] ignorant ingrates.
No race, white Americans, has none more for another, black Americans.
Myron Magnet, “Reparations for slavery, you say? Well, we tried that experiment, in the $20-plus trillion spent on welfare, Medicaid, housing, and food stamps for the mostly minority poor since Lyndon Johnson declared his War on Poverty in 1964. As Amity Shlaes shows in her cautionary Great Society: A New History, those trillions only made matters worse.”
I want the money back that we spent on Liberia before any goes out.
But this is just to divide us more and cause hatred towards a group they fear and is in their way.
If we could suddenly pack all our bags, our technology and say “we are out of here”, they would come and find us and beg to join.
My diocese just put out a video series that emphasizes the need to repent from “whiteness”. However, I don’t for a moment believe that my Bishop believes this tripe. He simply is a coward. Now, I learned that about him when he shut down Mass attendance for everyone during COVID. Ultimately, the tough part is not dismissing the bovine fertilizer that comes from the hierarchy these days, the hard part is trying to convince a non-Catholic to consider coming into the Church. I’ve been discussing the faith with one such young man raised as a Baptist, and I have to tell you the current state of the Church is a hard sell.
“ …the hard part is trying to convince a non-Catholic to consider coming into the Church.”
Amen, FOS. This miserable pontificate and the USelessCCB basically drove me out of my much beloved role as an RCIA catechist, because in many cases I could not in good conscience say anything supportive of their words and actions (or lack thereof). My own faith remains intact, thanks be to God. But how any serious follower of Christ outside the Church could look at today’s mess and still want to be Catholic is an amazing work of the Holy Spirit.
My diocese just put out a video series that emphasizes the need to repent from “whiteness”.
I’d be giving the diocese offices the biggest “up yours” I could possibly muster including a pledge to give $0 until ever. I know finding another may be difficult if you’re in the middle of a big one, but I’d also find another diocese if I possibly could.
In the meantime I’d get a shirt that says “God made me this way” and wear it every time I went near the church.
The Real Presence of Jesus Christ, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity is in the Catholic Church. No other church has the Real Presence. Go visit Him and bring a friend.
“[T]he hard part is trying to convince a non-Catholic to consider coming into the Church.”
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This convert has trouble staying in. Well, not staying in exactly. It is just that I don’t think the Roman Rite (except for the very few pockets of Tridentine areas) really exists in the US. The Church buildings might be there, and people may attend, but they don’t believe in 1) the real presence 2) the ban on contraception/abortion 3) the permanence of marriage vows 4) etc.
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So…maybe the Roman Rite exists in Africa. It is rather difficult to make one’s Sunday Obligation when the nearest parish is thousands of miles away.
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(I attend a Byzantine Rite parish, and it is still rather difficult)