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Article: Allow African-Americans to influence the church. (Catholic Church and race relations)(Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- April 25, 1997
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Expression -- language, music, art -- is culture's DNA. The ultimate cultural expression is religious worship. Consider then the circumstances of Cyprian Rowe, formerly a Marist brother, leaving the Roman Catholic church to become a bishop in the African American Catholic church. That congregation was founded in 1989 by a former Roman Catholic priest, Fr. (now Archbishop) George Stallings.
Being African-American and Catholic in a church that says it pays more than lip service to the premise of inculturation should mean the opportunity, the right to practice, probe, play out, expand, re-create its culture within the entirety of that church. Not to dominate the ...