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- LETTERS, Page 7Options for Black Catholics
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- Good for the Rev. George A. Stallings and his attempt to
- establish an independent African-American Catholic Congregation
- (RELIGION, July 10). When I was growing up in the '40s and '50s
- in the South Jamaica section of New York City, we walked four
- miles to attend Mass, passing by two Catholic churches on the
- way: one was "Italian" and celebrated non-Latin parts of the
- Mass in Italian, and the other was "Polish." Our church was for
- "regular" -- read "Irish" -- Catholics. If we could choose to
- celebrate Mass in ways familiar to us, why shouldn't black
- Catholics have the same option?
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- Frances Devine Cherry Hill, N.J.
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- When Father Stallings was ordained a Roman Catholic priest,
- he should have been well educated in canon law. To suggest
- experimental worship in a religion based on years of tradition
- is outrageous. Catholicism is a structured faith. If he doesn't
- like the structure, maybe it's time he packed his bags and moved
- on.
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- Brenda S. Johnson Bristol, Tenn.
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