China's Patriotic Catholic Church is alive and well....in America

It is very funny to watch some clueless Catholics decry the phony "Patriotic Catholic Church in China" as a church that basically cozies up to the regime, does not dare criticize the regime, carries out the regime's agenda and, in a nutshell, uses Catholicism only as a facade while seeming blissfully ignorant about what is going on in the Catholic Church here in America.

But is not exact same situation occurring right now in the USA?  In the USA the Catholic Bishops helpfully inform us poor white trash that we are all racists. Moreover, no one else could possibly be a racist, least of all the young black males responsible for over 80% of the criminal mayhem occurring in America. Christopher Manion explains:

Back in July, Catholic News Service reported: “Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta, Georgia, who was the first African-American president of the US bishops’ conference, has been appointed as chair of a new task force of the U.S. bishops to deal with racial issues brought into public consciousness following a series of summertime shootings that left both citizens and police officers among those dead.”

A racism task force. This could be very good news indeed — if Catholic bishops are willing to confront the issue squarely and theologically. They’ll have to do better than their last major statement on the subject, issued 37 years ago. Their 1979 Pastoral Letter on Racism had a stark, if simplistic message: “racism” is a “terrible sin”; moreover, while “most” whites are racists (whether they know it or not), nobody else is.

According to the pastoral letter, the “racism that permeates our society’s structures and resides in the hearts of many among the majority” is a sin so “subtle” that that most of us don’t even know that we’re sinning!

In their letter, the 1979 bishops both beat their breasts and threw some stones, asserting: “Each of us [in the racial majority], in varying degrees, is responsible. All of us in some measure are accomplices,” they alleged, though they inserted a curious caveat. “Perhaps no single individual is to blame,” they wrote. “The sinfulness is often anonymous but nonetheless real. The sin is social in nature. …” Anonymous sin that floats out in the ether, which we’re not even conscious of committing — that doesn’t sound like traditional moral theology so much as fuzzy, late-70s sociology with a dash of cultural Marxism. Perhaps anonymous sin can only be repented of by anonymous Christians.

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