Vendredi, le cardinal Peter Turkson est intervenu dans une discussion en ligne sur le racisme pour avertir qu’un manque d’accueil aux États-Unis.Une église éloigne les jeunes catholiques africains de l’Église.
RECOWACERAO NEWS AGENCY, RECONA, a réuni de manière fiable que le cardinal Peter Turkson, un cardinal ghanéen qui a fait ses preuves en tant que préfet du Dicastère du Vatican pour la promotion du développement humain intégral, a fait une apparition lors d’une table ronde en ligne sur «Le racisme dans nos rues et Structures »qui comprenait l’archevêque Wilton Gregory de Washington, DC, ainsi que d’autres dirigeants catholiques noirs.
Turkson a noté que «les évêques et les pasteurs de certaines parties de l’Afrique» se sont inquiétés du fait que les jeunes catholiques quittant le continent pour aller à l’école en Europe et aux États-Unis rentrent chez eux après avoir quitté l’Église.
“Se sentir les bienvenus dans certaines de nos églises traditionnelles ici est un problème”, a déclaré le cardinal Turkson. Les étudiants déclarant avoir eu des difficultés à être acceptés dans les communautés catholiques, a-t-il dit, et ils vont donc là où ils trouvent la «communion», poussés «dans le giron des mouvements et des groupes évangéliques».
Vendredi, la discussion en ligne a été organisée par l’Initiative sur la pensée sociale catholique et la vie publique à l’Université de Georgetown et animée par le directeur de l’initiative, John Carr.
Les panélistes étaient l’archevêque Gregory de Washington, DC, le seul archevêque afro-américain aux États-Unis, Gloria Purvis, animatrice de l’émission de radio EWTN “Morning Glory”, Ralph McCloud, directeur de la Campagne catholique pour le développement humain, et le Dr Marcia Chatelain est professeur d’histoire et d’études afro-américaines à Georgetown.
L’événement a eu lieu au milieu des manifestations nationales contre la mort de George Floyd, un homme noir de Minneapolis, en garde à vue. Vendredi, les assassinats d’Ahmaud Arbery en Géorgie et de Breonna Taylor à Louisville ont également été évoqués.
L’archevêque Gregory a déclaré que regarder des séquences vidéo de George Floyd disant “Je ne peux pas respirer” alors que l’officier de police de Minneapolis Derek Chauvin s’agenouilla sur son cou lui rappelait d’assister à la visite à cercueil ouvert d’Emmett Till lorsqu’il était jeune.
Till, un homme afro-américain de 14 ans, a été lynché par des hommes blancs au Mississippi en 1955, et sa mère a choisi d’avoir un sillage à cercueil ouvert pour montrer la brutalité de son meurtre.
Chauvin a depuis été renvoyé de la force et arrêté pour meurtre au deuxième degré.
Les meurtres récents d’Arbery et de Floyd font partie d’un «collage d’individus qui ont été assassinés», a déclaré Gregory, «sans autre raison que la couleur de leur peau».
Purvis a déclaré qu’elle avait regardé la vidéo de l’arrestation de Floyd avec horreur, voulant crier après que l’officier de police s’agenouilla au cou: «Arrêtez-vous au nom de Dieu! Arrêtez!”
“Je pensais juste que l’image de Dieu était maltraitée juste ici devant moi”, a-t-elle déclaré vendredi. “C’est comme regarder un avortement en cours, et vous ne pouvez rien faire.”
Gregory a également discuté d’une récente déclaration de lui qui critiquait une visite du président Donald Trump au sanctuaire national Saint-Jean-Paul II à Washington, D.C.en tant que séance photo politique lors des manifestations de masse contre le racisme et la brutalité policière.
L’archevêque avait déclaré le matin de la visite qu’il était “déconcertant et répréhensible que toute installation catholique se permette d’être si abusivement utilisée et manipulée d’une manière qui viole nos principes religieux”.
La Maison Blanche et le sanctuaire ont tous deux déclaré que la visite avait été planifiée avant les manifestations à Washington, D.C., et dans d’autres villes. Un porte-parole du sanctuaire a déclaré mardi que la Maison Blanche “avait initialement prévu que cela soit un événement pour que le président signe un décret sur la liberté religieuse internationale”. Trump a signé le décret plus tard dans la journée.
Vendredi, Gregory a déclaré que le pape Saint-Jean-Paul II «était un homme extrêmement préoccupé par la dignité des êtres humains» et même avant que son pontificat «ne lutte contre des systèmes» destinés à «nier la dignité humaine».
“Ce sanctuaire est un lieu saint à cause de l’homme qu’il honore”, a déclaré Gregory, et il n’aurait jamais dû être utilisé comme une “déclaration politique”.
Après que certains catholiques aient critiqué la réponse franche de Gregory, il a déclaré vendredi qu’il trouvait les réactions “rappelant, dans mon esprit, les critiques que les gens adressaient aux prêtres et aux religieuses catholiques qu’ils voyaient marcher pendant la période des droits civiques”.
«L’Église vit dans la société», a-t-il dit. «L’Église ne vit pas derrière les quatre portes des structures où nous adorons.»
Les panélistes ont également discuté de l’intersection du racisme et de la nouvelle pandémie de coronavirus. Gregory a déclaré que le racisme est similaire à un virus dans la mesure où «ce sont des choses qui ont un impact sur nos vies qui nous font peur, mais qui se manifestent également de manière silencieuse et souvent inconnue».
Les communautés afro-américaines ont été parmi les dernières communautés américaines à disposer de tests pour le virus, a déclaré McCloud. Même les animaux de zoo et les athlètes vedettes étaient testés pour le virus avant le «test équitable des communautés afro-américaines», a-t-il déclaré.
Purvis a abordé les arguments selon lesquels des manifestations de masse pourraient mettre des vies en danger en propageant le virus. Les participants sont bien conscients des dangers d’attraper le virus, a-t-elle déclaré, mais cela témoigne de la gravité des problèmes de racisme et de brutalité policière auxquels ils protestent.
“Le Seigneur appelle toute la nation au repentir”, a déclaré Purvis. Les catholiques devraient examiner leur conscience pour voir comment ils auraient pu rabaisser leur prochain en pensée, en paroles ou en actes. Les catholiques peuvent toujours demander à Dieu: «S’il vous plaît, montrez-moi ma rupture», a-t-elle dit. “Il le fera.”
Offrant un moyen concret aux catholiques de lutter contre le racisme, elle a déclaré: «Écoutez les gens de couleur. Écoutez.”
Le mouvement pro-vie devrait également s’impliquer dans la lutte contre le racisme, a-t-elle déclaré, car «l’impératif évangélique» derrière le mouvement «concerne la personne humaine».
“L’appel de ce mouvement est de dire que nous ne voulons pas que le pouvoir de l’État soit utilisé contre nous”, a-t-elle déclaré à propos du mouvement pour la justice raciale.
Dans ses remarques, Chatelain, le professeur de Georgetown, a demandé si les catholiques étaient vraiment prêts à sacrifier et à changer leurs propres attitudes pour lutter contre l’injustice raciale.
Gregory a dit qu’il espérait un changement, car «si vous regardez les visages d’un si grand nombre de manifestants, les manifestants calmes, doux et pacifiques – ce sont des visages blancs. Il y a beaucoup plus de visages blancs impliqués dans cette réponse que jamais auparavant. Et cela me donne un espoir que, d’une manière ou d’une autre, ce n’est pas qu’un moment passager. Je prie pour que ce soit plus qu’un moment qui passe. ”
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A agência de notícias RECOWACERAO, correspondente do Vaticano, RECONA registrou a notícia de que um dos nossos melhores no domínio eclesiástico na África, que também é o prefeito do Dicastério para a Promoção do Desenvolvimento Humano Integral, criticou amplamente os efeitos adversos predominantes do racismo no mundo. .
O cardeal Peter Turkson interveio em uma discussão on-line sobre racismo na sexta-feira para alertar que a falta de boas-vindas nos EUA Uma igreja está afastando jovens católicos africanos da Igreja.
A AGÊNCIA DE NOTÍCIAS DA RECOWACERAO, RECONA, reuniu de maneira confiável que o cardeal Peter Turkson, um cardeal ganês que provou seu valor como prefeito do Dicastério do Vaticano para a Promoção do Desenvolvimento Humano Integral, fez uma aparição como convidado durante um painel de discussão on-line sobre “Racismo em nossas ruas e Estruturas ”, que contou com o arcebispo Wilton Gregory, de Washington, DC, junto com outros líderes católicos negros.
Turkson observou que “bispos e pastores de partes da África” manifestaram preocupação com o fato de os jovens católicos deixarem o continente para frequentar escolas na Europa e os EUA voltarem para casa, deixando a Igreja.
“Sentir-se bem-vindo em algumas de nossas igrejas tradicionais por aqui é um problema”, disse o cardeal Turkson. Os estudantes que relataram ter tido dificuldade em serem aceitos nas comunidades católicas, ele disse, e então eles vão para onde encontram “comunhão”, levados “para o rebanho de movimentos e grupos evangélicos”.
A discussão on-line na sexta-feira foi organizada pela Iniciativa sobre Pensamento Social Católico e Vida Pública na Universidade de Georgetown, e moderada pelo diretor da iniciativa, John Carr.
Entre os participantes estavam o arcebispo Gregory, de Washington, DC, a única arcebispo afro-americana nos Estados Unidos, Gloria Purvis, apresentadora do programa de rádio da EWTN “Morning Glory”, Ralph McCloud, diretor da Campanha Católica para o Desenvolvimento Humano, e a doutora Marcia Chatelain, professor de história e estudos afro-americanos em Georgetown.
O evento foi realizado em meio a protestos nacionais pela morte de George Floyd, um negro de Minneapolis, sob custódia policial. Os assassinatos de Ahmaud Arbery na Geórgia em fevereiro e Breonna Taylor em Louisville também foram discutidos no painel de sexta-feira.
O arcebispo Gregory disse que assistir a vídeos de George Floyd dizendo “Eu não consigo respirar” enquanto o policial Derek Chauvin de Minneapolis se ajoelhava no pescoço o lembrava de assistir à exibição de caixão aberto de Emmett Till quando jovem.
Até, um homem afro-americano de 14 anos de idade, foi linchado por homens brancos no Mississippi em 1955, e sua mãe optou por um velório aberto para exibir a brutalidade de seu assassinato.
Desde então, Chauvin foi demitido da força e preso sob acusação de assassinato em segundo grau.
Os recentes assassinatos de Arbery e Floyd fazem parte de uma “colagem de indivíduos que foram assassinados”, disse Gregory, “por nenhuma outra razão senão a cor de sua pele”.
Purvis disse que assistiu ao vídeo da prisão de Floyd horrorizada, querendo gritar com o policial ajoelhado em seu pescoço: “Pare em nome de Deus! Pare!”
“Eu apenas pensei que a imagem de Deus está sendo abusada bem aqui na minha frente”, disse ela na sexta-feira. “É como assistir a um aborto sendo realizado, e você não pode fazer nada.”
Gregory também discutiu uma declaração recente dele que criticou a visita do presidente Donald Trump ao Santuário Nacional São João Paulo II em Washington, DC como uma foto política durante os protestos em massa contra o racismo e a brutalidade policial.
O arcebispo havia dito na manhã da visita que era “desconcertante e repreensível que qualquer instalação católica se permitisse ser tão flagrantemente usada e manipulada de uma maneira que viole nossos princípios religiosos”.
A Casa Branca e o santuário disseram que a visita havia sido planejada antes das manifestações em Washington, DC e outras cidades. Um porta-voz do santuário disse na terça-feira que a Casa Branca “originalmente agendou isso como um evento para o presidente assinar uma ordem executiva sobre a liberdade religiosa internacional”. Trump assinou a ordem executiva mais tarde naquele dia.
Na sexta-feira, Gregório disse que o papa São João Paulo II “era um homem de incrível preocupação com a dignidade dos seres humanos” e mesmo antes de seu pontificado “estava lutando contra sistemas” que pretendiam “negar a dignidade humana”.
“Esse santuário é um lugar sagrado por causa do homem que ele honra”, disse Gregory, e nunca deveria ter sido usado como uma “declaração política”.
Depois que alguns católicos criticaram a resposta franca de Gregory, ele disse na sexta-feira que achou as reações “remanescentes, na minha opinião, das críticas que as pessoas deram aos padres e freiras católicos que viram marchar durante o período dos direitos civis”.
“A Igreja vive em sociedade”, disse ele. “A Igreja não vive atrás das quatro portas das estruturas onde adoramos.”
Os participantes do painel também discutiram a interseção do racismo e a nova pandemia de coronavírus. Gregory disse que o racismo é semelhante ao
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The Vatican Correspondent RECOWACERAO NEWS AGENCY, RECONA has filed the news that one of our best in the ecclesiastical domain in Africa, who is also the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has largely harped on the prevailing adverse effects of racism in the world.
Cardinal Peter Turkson intervened in an online discussion of racism on Friday to warn that a lack of welcome in the U.S. A church is driving young African Catholics away from the Church.
RECOWACERAO NEWS AGENCY, RECONA, reliably gathered that Cardinal Peter Turkson, a Ghanaian cardinal who has proved his worth as the prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, made a guest appearance during an online panel discussion on “Racism in Our Streets and Structures” that featured Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., along with other black Catholic leaders.
Turkson noted that “bishops and pastors from parts of Africa” have expressed concern that young Catholics leaving the continent to attend schools in Europe and the U.S. return home having left the Church.
“Feeling welcome in some of our traditional churches over here is an issue,” Cardinal Turkson said. The students reporting having had difficulty being accepted in Catholic communities, he said, and so they go to where they find “fellowship,” driven “into the fold of Evangelical movements and groups.”
The online discussion on Friday was hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, and moderated by the director of the initiative, John Carr.
Panelists included Archbishop Gregory of Washington, D.C., the only African-American archbishop in the United States, Gloria Purvis, host of the EWTN radio show “Morning Glory,” Ralph McCloud, director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, and Dr. Marcia Chatelain a professor of history and African-American studies at Georgetown.
The event was held amid national protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man from Minneapolis, in police custody. The killings of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in February and Breonna Taylor in Louisville were also discussed at Friday’s panel.
Archbishop Gregory said that watching video footage of George Floyd saying “I can’t breathe” as Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck reminded him of attending the open-casket viewing of Emmett Till as a young man.
Till, a 14-year-old African-American male, was lynched by white men in Mississippi in 1955, and his mother chose to have an open-casket wake to exhibit the brutality of his murder.
Chauvin has since been dismissed from the force and arrested on charges of second-degree murder.
The recent killings of Arbery and Floyd are part of a “collage of individuals who have been assassinated,” Gregory said, “for no other reason than the color of their skin.”
Purvis said that she watched the video of Floyd’s arrest in horror, wanting to yell at the police officer kneeling on his neck, “Stop in the name of God! Stop!”
“I just thought the image of God is being abused right here in front of me,” she said on Friday. “It’s like watching an abortion being performed, and you can do nothing.”
Gregory also discussed a recent statement of his that criticized a visit of President Donald Trump to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C. as a political photo-op during the mass protests against racism and police brutality.
The archbishop had said the morning of the visit that it was “baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles.”
The White House and shrine both said that the visit had been planned in advance of the demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and other cities. A spokesperson for the shrine said on Tuesday that the White House “originally scheduled this as an event for the president to sign an executive order on international religious freedom.” Trump signed the executive order later that day.
On Friday, Gregory said that Pope St. John Paul II “was a man of incredible concern about the dignity of human beings” and even before his pontificate “was battling systems” that were intended to “deny human dignity.”
“That shrine is a holy place because of the man that it honors,” Gregory said, and it never should have been used as a “political statement.”
After some Catholics criticized Gregory’s outspoken response, he said Friday that he found the reactions “reminiscent, in my mind, to the criticism that people gave to Catholic priests and nuns that they saw marching during the civil rights period.”
“The Church lives in society,” he said. “The Church does not live behind the four doors of the structures where we worship.”
Panelists also discussed the intersection of racism and the new coronavirus pandemic. Gregory said that racism is similar to a virus in that both “are things that impact our lives that frighten us, but also come in silent and oftentimes undiscoverable ways.”
African-American communities were some of the last U.S. communities to have available testing for the virus, McCloud said. Even zoo animals and star athletes were being tested for the virus before the “equitable testing of African-American communities,” he said.
Purvis addressed the arguments that mass protests might put lives in danger by spreading the virus. Participants are well aware of the dangers of catching the virus, she said, but this speaks to the gravity of the issues of racism and police brutality they are protesting.
“The Lord is calling the entire nation to repentance,” Purvis said. Catholics should examine their consciences to see how they might have demeaned their neighbor in thought, word, or act. Catholics can always ask God, “please show me my brokenness,” she said. “He will do that.”
Offering a concrete way for Catholics to fight racism, she said “Listen to people of color. Just listen.”
The pro-life movement should also get involved to fight racism, she said, as the “Gospel imperative” behind the movement “is about the human person.”
“The call of this movement is to say we don’t want the power of the state used against us,” she said of the racial justice movement.
In her remarks, Chatelain, the Georgetown professor, asked whether Catholics are really willing to sacrifice, and to change their own attitudes, to address racial injustice.
Gregory offered that he is hopeful about change, because “if you look at the faces of so many of the protesters, the quiet, gentle, peaceful protesters—they’re white faces. There are many more white faces involved in this response than I ever saw before. And that gives me a spirit of hope that somehow this is more than just a passing moment. I pray that it’s more than just a passing moment.”
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