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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.