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A Brief History of African American Catholics
- "Slavery was a cruel social institution that corrupted the entire history of the United States.
It divided the nation. It divided religion. It touched every part of the Catholic Church. In 1839, Pope
Gregory XVI condemned slavery in the document Supremo Apostolatus Fastigio, but this made little impact.
Catholic slaveholders did not consider slavery immoral, since the Bible did not forbid it. Many priests
and religious sisters owned slaves. So did some bishops. Even some African American Catholics had slaves.
A black person might purchase a slave in order to be able to marry him or her and the spouse remained,
legally, a slave."
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My Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you
does in fact please you.
And I hope
I have that desire
in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything
apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this
you will lead me by the right road
though I may
know nothing about it.
Therefore I will trust you always
though I may seem lost
and in the shadow of
death.
I will fear not,
for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me
to face
my perils alone.
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