Programs for Archbishop's Commision on Human Relations
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1965-2-5
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Box 05 , Box 05 Folder 07
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"The Bishops of the United States in their classic, 1958 statement, ""Discrimination and the Christian Conscience"", have set the standard for all Catholics and have placed beyond all doubt or equivocation the clear spiritual and moral implications of all acts of racial discrimination. The challenge that statement places before us might be summarized in these sentences from it: ""It is vital that we act now and decisively. All of us must act quietly when necessary, but courageously and resolute before it is too late."" We must insist, in season and out, on both phases of that thought: the call to action and the standard which our action must strive to meet In our parishes we begin with a prayer, ""O God, You have established the nature of man in wondrous dignity and have even more wondrously restored it; grant that through the mystery of this water and wine, we may have fellowship in the Godhead of Him who designed to share our manhood, Jesus Christ, Your Son.. Every day in thousands of pariah churches these words are prayed in the Sacrifice of the Church Universal, made present in each of our parish cells of that Church. In the face of this awesome, soaring affirmation of the dignity - the glory - of man, distinctions of race are an abomination. Yet in too many of our parishes, and in the neighborhoods that form them, the deep implications of this prayer are not the living reality they should be. Every parish therefore, must strive to put Christ's teachings on race into practical application."
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