Roland, let the white Canadians mourn the loss of the Churches.
Why should you be concerned? The Catholic Church is not really ours, it is
European in liturgy, doctrine and issues highlighted.
- Brown/Black clerics had to follow Vat commands in every respect, down to
the silly vestments they had to wear and the communion wafer served. (No
chapatti wafer allowed.) Some of our priests (esp the chocolate skinned
ones) did look clownish wearing those heavy, ornate robes in the tropical
heat.
- Did the Euro Church ever raise its voice against the horrors of
colonialism, forced conversions, the forced removal of brown/black children
from their parents in the Canada, Australia & Pacific Islands into white
managed boarding schools in order to Europeanise them?
- There was blatant racial discrimination over seating in the 'houses of
God' in India, Africa, etc the whites being given the front seats (often
with reserved names).
- In the UK, blacks (converted by white missionaries in the Caribbean) were
not welcomed in the existing churches and went on to set up their own
churches
- No native bishop of an Asian or African country was appointed until it was
independent, so that control didn't pass to non-white clerics while whites
were present.
- No pope wrote firmly against the horrific abuses to which Euro colonizers
subjected natives, whereas there were papal encyclicals expressed concern
about the welfare of Euro migrants to North America.
- Popes in the 1940s were alarmed at the rise of Communism, a purely Euro
phenomenon, and Pope Pius XII prescribed special prayers everywhere
(including India) to be recited after Mass for the conversion of Russia !
- No colonial governments were ever censured for their grab & settlement on
the best land & banishment of natives into inhospitable reserves in the
Americas & South Africa.
One can go on.
Good riddance of the Euro-controlled church, I say. What a pity that
Indians or Asians still hang on to the Vat establishment and haven't been
able to band together and set up a more authentic church of their own.
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Eddie
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Francis
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 5:37 PM
To: goa...@goanet.org
Subject: [Goanet] A Time To Mourn
It’s a social and cultural marker when 9,000 churches are forecasted to
close both in rural and urban areas of Canada in the next 10 years.
Whether you believe in God or not, the Church has been an important part of
any growing-up Catholic experience and a meeting place to pray and commune.
What will or can replace its functions that go beyond its primary purpose of
prayer.
From sacred to secular: Canada set to lose 9,000 churches, warns national
heritage group
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/losing-churches-canada-1.5046812
Roland.
Toronto.
