03-17-2005, 01:48 PM
Racism in Catholic Church -<b> Dalit liberators!?!?!</b>
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FUTHI NTSHINGILA
13 March 2005
AN EXPLOSIVE internal report has exposed widespread racism in the Catholic Church in South Africa.
The Sunday Times has obtained a copy of the 31-page report called Racism and the Catholic Church, produced by the church's Justice and Peace Department after a two-year investigation into race relations among the church's leadership and its three-million-strong congregation.
The hard-hitting report found that the dominance of bishops who "come from the European cultural perspective" in the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference ensured that "white European perspectives and interests always set the agenda of the church".
The report says that Catholics "come into the church as privileged whites and underprivileged blacks. We have inherited a system of inequality."
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/articles/arti...x?ID=ST6A110614 <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Report damns second-class treatment of black members
FUTHI NTSHINGILA
13 March 2005
AN EXPLOSIVE internal report has exposed widespread racism in the Catholic Church in South Africa.
The Sunday Times has obtained a copy of the 31-page report called Racism and the Catholic Church, produced by the church's Justice and Peace Department after a two-year investigation into race relations among the church's leadership and its three-million-strong congregation.
The hard-hitting report found that the dominance of bishops who "come from the European cultural perspective" in the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference ensured that "white European perspectives and interests always set the agenda of the church".
The report says that Catholics "come into the church as privileged whites and underprivileged blacks. We have inherited a system of inequality."
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/articles/arti...x?ID=ST6A110614 <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->