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In fact, at the beginning of the Q & A period, people were told not
to even ask about that conflict. Instead, Dr. Hawkins, who has her Ph.D.
in political science, spoke on Race and Parish Matters, The Politics of
Black Catholic parishes (at Dominican University's Rosary Chapel) . . .
Two of the black parishes on which she based her research are St.
Sabina, 1210 W. 78th Place, and St. Agatha on the West Side, both of
which have white pastors, Fr. Michael Pfleger and Fr. Larry Dowling. She
responds to critics of that decision by saying that what matters is not
the color of the pastors' skin but their ability to see reality through
the eyes of oppressed and marginalized people. In other words, they
practice liberation theology . .
That last question was personal. Hawkins (who is not Catholic) knows how
to do social science, but to her surprise she found in Catholic social
teaching an articulation of the relationship of faith to politics that
she has heard "nowhere else." Citing the encyclical Rerum Novarum in
particular, which Pope Leo XIII promulgated in 1891, she said that
Catholic social teaching "changed my life."
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http://www.riverforest.com/News/Arti...lty,-unbowed-/
I've been reading the Journal of Oak Park and River Forest, IL; this story was on the front page.
It sounds like this scholar needs to learn a lot more about Catholicism
in order to draw accurate factual conclusions about Catholic parishes
and American politics.
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"It's a free country; you can say whatever you want."
--Old American Saying
(U.S. Postal Service stamp-- from 1977 Americana series which extols
freedom of speech and features a Speaker's Stand decorated with an
American Flag shield.)
Larycia Hawkins discusses race, religion and politics at Dominican U. in Illinois
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