Word: heithaus
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...Father Heithaus waggled a warning finger at the white Catholic "who rises with a face set in the hard lines of racial anger or hate and shouts: 'Would you want your sister to marry a Negro?' " For that question, he had another question and a sharp answer...
...Christ said 'If you wish to be perfect, come and follow Me,' did He mean by 'you' only persons of Caucasian ancestry?" So the Rev. Claude H. Heit-haus, S.J., of Marquette University angrily asks in the current issue of the Jesuit weekly America. Professor Heithaus had recently read that 17 diocesan seminaries, 52 religious seminaries and 25 congregations of nuns of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. are now accepting Negro candidates. That reminded him that there are 47 Roman Catholic diocesan seminaries, 285 religious seminaries and 209 congregations of nuns still unaccounted...
Said Jesuit Heithaus: "We are asking too much if we expect Negroes to see Christ's church in an organization that seems (to them at least) to be run by whites, for whites, and according to white men's notions . . . No matter how shabby a store-front church may be, most Negroes would unhesitatingly prefer it to the most magnificent Catholic church -in which a Negro would be shunned, stared at or given the deep-freeze treatment. Most Negroes would prefer such a church even to our so-called 'Negro' churches in which an all-Negro...
...their own Protestant churches, Father Heithaus pointed out, "Negroes do not feel that they are peripheral nonentities, ruled over, preached at, arranged for and perhaps condescended to-by the great white man. In them Negroes can see bishops and ministers who represent their race in the worship of God and thereby dignify it . . ." But in the Roman Catholic Church "almost all of our cities, north and south, are without a single Negro priest who is a pastor . . . 'Negro priest' sounds like 'square circle' to the average American...
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