NEW YORK CITY: CATHOLIC CHURCH REPLACES JESUS AT THE ALTAR WITH GEORGE FLOYD & HAS CONGREGATION AFFIRM RACIAL JUSTICE PLEDGES~CHURCH SUPPORTS LGBTQ, ILLEGALS, NEW AGE ZEN MEDITATION, ETC.
KENNETH BOLLER, SJ-HAS NO BLACKS ON HIS STAFF!
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PastorKen grew up in Queens, NY and entered the Jesuits after graduating from high school. The usual Jesuit training included a B.A. from Fordham in Math and Philosophy and a M. Div. degree from Woodstock. College. Other studies included an M.S. in Math from NYU and degree in secondary school administration from Fordham. Ken’s primary ministry through the years has been in education, serving as a teacher, principal and president at four Jesuit high school, Canisius H.S., Fordham Prep, St. Peter’s Prep and Xavier H.S.(three times). In between, he served as Pastor of St Aloysius Church in Harlem, NY.
Throughout the years Ken has enjoyed varied pastoral ministries leading and directing the Spiritual Exercises, assisting in various parishes on the weekends and ministering at the youth detention center in the Bronx for many years. Having grown up in a large extended family, he has been privileged to accompany family members from Baptism and the range of sacraments through funerals, always celebrating life.
He is delighted to return to 16 th Street for the fourth time.
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A Catholic church in New York City has replaced Jesus on their altar with graven images of their new “martyred saints” of “racial injustice” and has offered a prayer to their god for their commitment to their new religion of “racial equity.”
The Reverend, Kenneth Boller, SJ of St. Francis Xavier in NYC offered a prayer to commit the church to acknowledge their “white privilege,” fight against “racial injustice,” promote “racial equity,” and to “strive to eliminate racial prejudice from your thoughts and actions so that you can better promote the racial justice efforts of our church.”
On the altar, instead of Jesus, you can see pictures of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery — all people who have been hailed as martyrs for the cause of “racial justice” by Marxist revolutionaries. Churches, too, have embraced this religion.
Just to be clear, the Roman Catholic Church removed Jesus from their altar long ago and replaced Him with an idol of self-sufficiency, works righteousness, and sacerdotalism. To the Roman Catholic, the cross is insufficient to remove the guilty stains of sin from the sinner and their religion requires an endless cycle of confession and penance, continually moving one from a state of grace to a state of damnation. Salvation is never secure. So, it should come as no surprise that these churches take the same approach to the history of racism in this country. To them, the stain hasn’t been — and never can be — fully removed and thus requires endless acts of penance and restitution on behalf of their ancestors who may or may not have committed the sin of racism.
But this religion isn’t unique to the Roman Catholic Church. An increasing number of Evangelical churches, including Southern Baptist and Presbyterian churches, are embracing this new religion. “Racial justice” has become a recurring theme at Evangelical meetings and sadly, the majority of Evangelical leaders are pushing the exact same theology.
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EXCERPTS TAKEN FROM: https://sfxavier.org/racial-justice
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COMMUNITY PRAYER SERVICE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
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This page contains links to resources for reflection, education and action regarding racial justice. Check back periodically for updates.
Last updated: 7/7/20
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ARTICLES, ANALYSIS & REFERENCE MATERIALS
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- America Magazine's Coverage of Racial Justice
- Black Liberation Reading List by The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Bryan Massingale, "The Assumptions of White Privilege and What We Can Do About It,"
- Bryan Massingale, "The Only Thing That Matters"
- Cardinal Cupich, "It's Time For National Reconciliation"
- Check In on Your Black Employees, Now
- The Cost of Code Switching
- Fighting Racism Even, and Especially, Where We Don't Realize It Exists: How to Be an Antiracist
- How Catholics Can Work for Racial Justice
- How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
- The Intersectionality Wars
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus on racism resource page
- On Being a Black American Biglaw Associate
- "Required Reading, A Black Catholic Syllabus" from US Catholic
- Talking About Race
- ‘The terror of wearing both a press badge and black skin’
- Toward a Racially Just Workplace
- We White Liberals Need to Face Our Internalized Racism
- White People, Here's How We Can Try to be Better Allies and Proactively Anti-Racist
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America
- Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They're Okay -- Chances Are They're Not
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BOOKS
- America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- How To Be an Antiracist by Dr. lbram X. Kendi
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- We Keep Us Safe by Zach Norris
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
- Angela Davis' book "Are Prisons Obsolete?"-- Click here for the pdf version of the book
- My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
- Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Practice by Michelle C. Johnson
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OTHER MEDIA
America Media Interviews, Fr. Bryan Massingale
Being nice is not going to end racism by Robin DiAngelo (White Fragility)Forum with Father Massingale and St. Bart’s
Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time
How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion
"I Am Not Your Negro" envisions the book James Baldwin never finished about race in America.
"Just Mercy" is a film about the life of Bryan Stevenson
Let's Get to the Root of Racial Injustice
On Being with Krista Tippett: Resmaa Menakem "Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence"
Online Course about race, inequality and social justice
Sesame Street Town Hall on Race
Speech/Talk: POOR PEOPLE’s CAMPAIGNBlack Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives by Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett and Charlene Carruthers at The National LGBTQ Task Force
The Bronx Book Festival celebrated its third year this past Saturday, June 6. Bronx Book Festival centers Black and Brown voices in the world of literature. The Festival went digital this year, and you can access the recorded festival conversations here, for panels with authors of color writing across genres for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers.
The Classical Theatre of Harlem has curated a list of anti-racism resources, including podcasts, film and TV, literature, and information and tools for conducting anti-racism
assessment and training at the individual and organizational level, here. 2011 interview (pre-Black Lives Matter) Angela Davis
Netflix Movie 13th by Ava DuVernay
The Truth About the Confederacy in the United States
White People Have a Very Very Serious Problem - Toni Morrison on Charlie Rose