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PAGE 20 - The Georgia Bulletin, August 2, 1990
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Anti-Racism Pastoral Issued In Advance Of KKK Meeting
SHREVEPORT, La. (CNS) - An
anti-racism pastoral by Bishop William B.
Friend of Shreveport was issued in part
due to a planned meeting next year in
Shreveport of various Ku Klux Klan
organizations.
In announcing the pastoral, "That All
May Be One," issued July 11, Bishop
Friend said the Klan meeting was "an
‘honor’ we could do without."
Bishop Friend in the pastoral said
"there are certain organizations, such as
the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who
foster the errors of interpreting science
and history to the detriment of certain
races and religions."
"The pamphlets which these Knights
distribute here present a distortion of the
truth and reality about the human person,"
he continued. "Regretfully, they some
times claim that the sharing of such dis
tortions and untruths is a Christian thing
to do."
Bishop Friend said, "We cannot witness
or support institutionalized racism and
Jesus Christ at one and the same time."
There are 42 separate Klan organiza
tions in the United States. The KKK has
preached superiority over blacks, Catho
lics and Jews.
The pastoral said, "The work of salva
tion is no longer destined for only one
people.... It is the whole ‘race of Adam’
which is involved."
Bishop Friend said racism "appears to
be in ascendancy again. Perhaps now that
the ‘evil empires’ of other nations have
become less threatening we need to find
new enemies, this time closer to home."
"One’s ‘neighbor,"’ Bishop Friend said,
is not only a person from my block, my
tribe, my milieu, my religion, or my
nation. It is every person that I meet
along the way."
Bishop Friend said, "It is natural for us
to identify differences that exist among
"We cannot witness or support
institutionalized racism and Jesus
Christ at one and the same time."
--Bishop William B. Friend
us," but "it is only when we presume to
boast of having superiority over others,
judge unfairly, or discriminate against
their basic rights and dignity as human
persons that we offend."
He said, "The theories about essential
differences of a hereditary biological
nature helped to pave the way for ... the
difficulties suffered in modem times,"
citing the Nazi Holocaust suffered by
Jews, and "harassment and slaughter that
continues on the continent of Africa, in
Asia, in Central and South America, and
in the Near East."
In the United States, he said, "we find
racial prejudice running the full range of
opportunities given it," including crime,
politics, justice, housing, lending, employ
ment, health care, and "white backlash."
Catholics and all Christians must work
to eliminate racism, Bishop Friend said.
"Our important task as Christians is to
break down the barriers among people
that have caused grievous misunderstand
ings and alienation in the past," he said.
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Catholics can "acknowledge the fact"
that racism "involves all of us," he said.
"We can help foster Christian behavior by
trying to influence the attitudes of others
by expressly rejecting racial stereotypes,
racial slurs and racial jokes," he said.
Other ways that Catholics can combat
racism, Bishop Friend said, were to:
-- "Be aware of what is happening"
when racial bias affects personal attitudes.
- Understand U.S. social structures
better.
- Collaborate with other churches in
the fight against racism.
— Foster minority involvement in
church leadership and promote social
justice in Catholic institutions.
— Support minority associations and
endeavors and help business relate better
with minorities.
Black Clergy,
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
Black Catholic clergy and Religious
held their annual national meeting July
23-27 at the Bronx campus of Fordham
University.
Participants were joined by friends
from New York parishes at an evening
Mass July 23 in St. Aloysius Church in
central Harlem. During the Mass Holy
Cross Brother Roy Smith, president of the
clergy caucus, spoke about the example
of Pierre Toussaint. The Haitian was bom
in slavery in 1766 and lived in New York
from 1787 until his death in 1853.
— "Recognize legitimate diversity and
the call to unity."
- "Be a holy people."
Noting the influence of governmental
and civic leaders and the media, Bishop
Friend said, "Long overdue is the need to
review the actions and agendas of such
influential people and call them to ac
countability."
Bishop Friend in his announcement
said that "recent developments politically"
in Louisiana also prompted the letter.
The bishop did not specify any devel
opments, but David Duke, a Louisiana
state representative who champions "white
rights," is campaigning for a U.S. Senate
seat. A former Klan imperial wizard,
Duke founded the National Association
for the Advancement of White People.
Religious Meet
Toussaint, whose cause for canoniza
tion was formally launched by Cardinal
John J. O’Connor of New York last De
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ceiving his freedom. Brother Smith said,
however, that although Toussaint moved
among the affluent, he “never forgot
whence he came” and assisted black men
in need.
Toussaint’s prayer today, he said,
would be that black people magnify
“inclusivity” and “that which unites.”
The prayers of the faithful at the Mass
included a petition for “a double portion
of Toussaint’s spirit.”
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