Written by Tony Guttierez | OSV News

PHOENIX (OSV News) — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., reminded us that there is no “faking our life in Christ,” said Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, archbishop emeritus of Washington, at the Diocese of Phoenix’s annual Mass honoring the slain Civil Rights leader Jan. 17.

Cardinal Gregory, the nation’s first Black cardinal and the Church’s first African American cardinal, served as the guest homilist at the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mass at Xavier College Preparatory Catholic High School’s Chapel of Our Lady in Phoenix. He was joined by Bishop John P. Dolan and Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo Nevares.