A Timely Reflection on this Past Sunday's Reading: We Are All Equal

 

by Mickey Kelly

Many Catholics heard a powerful reading from St. Paul to the Church of Corinth, just days following his conversion. It was heard on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and days following the Roe v Wade anniversary; plus days before the anniversary of the passing of the 13th amendment that freed African Americans from slavery.

Here's the reading in its entirety:

Brothers and sisters:
As a body is one though it has many parts,
and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body,
so also Christ.
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons,
and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.

Now the body is not a single part, but many.
If a foot should say,
"Because I am not a hand I do not belong to the body, "
it does not for this reason belong any less to the body.
Or if an ear should say,
"Because I am not an eye I do not belong to the body, "

it does not for this reason belong any less to the body.
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be?
If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
But as it is, God placed the parts,
each one of them, in the body as he intended.
If they were all one part, where would the body be?
But as it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you, "
nor again the head to the feet, "I do not need you."
Indeed, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker
are all the more necessary,
and those parts of the body that we consider less honorable
we surround with greater honor,
and our less presentable parts are treated with greater propriety,
whereas our more presentable parts do not need this.
But God has so constructed the body
as to give greater honor to a part that is without it,
so that there may be no division in the body,
but that the parts may have the same concern for one another.
If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it;
if one part is honored, all the parts share its joy.

Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.
Some people God has designated in the church
to be, first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers;
then, mighty deeds;
then gifts of healing, assistance, administration,
and varieties of tongues.
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers?
Do all work mighty deeds? Do all have gifts of healing?
Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?

After listening to some commentaries and homilies centered around the reading, I'm just blown away at how God has a sense of humor and his timing. Here's why:

January is another month in the calendar year that is set aside for pro-life. As a history buff, I am appalled at how history tends to repeat itself. The readings discussed how we are one body and that no one is superior than the other. Sadly, it has resulted in genocide, especially in the last century. Take for example that January 27th marks the anniversary of when Auschwitz was liberated. A priest shared how he visited the death camp and he noticed across the way homes. At first, he thought they were recently built. However, the guide told him that the homes existed around the time the killings took place. Despite the concerns of the smoke coming out of the camp, the SS told the residents to pretend like nothing was happening.

January 22nd marked the anniversary when 7 men on the Supreme Court of the United States decided abortion is legal across the country. (Who said men cannot have an opinion?) Since the decision handed down by the highest court, 61 million babies have been sacrificed in the name of so called Women's Rights, Comfort, and Inconvenience. A majority of the abortions have been done on African Americans, yet they are pawns to a political party that has a long history of immorality, enslavement, slavery, theft, and even racism. No child is an inconvenience. The child in the mother's womb is just as wonderfully made as the homeless person, disabled veteran, the mentally challenged person, the senior citizen who fought in WW2, and even the immigrant or refugee.

January 31st marks the anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. The amendment, passed by a 2/3 majority in congress (mostly Republicans), clearly states that: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Unfortunately, African Americans are enslaved by the abortion lobby and an unborn black baby is more likely to be killed by abortion than gun violence, AIDS, and a member of the KKK.

What To Do?

We must take action. The best way is to acknowledge the fact that we are all human. Days following the March for Life, there was a video that surfaced about the young boys being taunted by Nathan Phillips, a so called "Vietnam Veteran." There were counter demonstrations that took place before, during, and after the March for Life. Phillips led an indigenous march for his fellow Native Americans. Originally, the videos on CNN and other outlets from the lame-stream media made everyone jump to conclusions and blame the students. However, when more videos surfaced to destroy the fake news narrative, there was not a single bystander that stepped in and acknowledged the fact that "we are all human." Meanwhile, those additional videos proved their innocence and apologies have poured in. It is sad to see how alarming that we must be reminded that we are all human. No matter what race, creed, or ethnicity, we are all wonderfully made by God. We have forgotten that each of us are created by God and have a purpose in this mortal life. Yes, we have people who sin against him, but we are called to love the person who sins and judge their actions. The first way to show love to the sinner is to pray. I believe the power of prayer unleashes love.

As a regular participant in the pro-life prayer vigils, I have seen how desolate and cold it can be. The escorts thinking they are doing what is right, yet in God's eye, they are doing wrong. They ignore you when you try to remind them of how they are a part of the problem with the abortion. We must continue to plant the seeds for their conversion with prayer and love. It is a challenge to get them thinking, but we must be more vocal about it.

I believe we need to be more vocal about what is happening in our society. We cannot stand and watch as human life is being attacked from womb to tomb. We may be told to "shut the bleep up", "Who cares", among other things, but we need to make enough noise to get people thinking. Without having a conversation about abortion, how are people going to think? We must be like the summer soldiers and sunshine patriots coming together to persevere in the fight to restore humanity. Marines have a motto that goes back to WW1 that goes, "Retreat Hell". We cannot give away an inch, but we must stand like a tree and hold onto our moral ground. If Marines can defend the Argonne Forest, then we have a reason to defend all life from womb to tomb.

I also want to mention that Martin Luther King Jr.'s 90th birthday. King had a dream that all of God's children will be holding hands together. I believe that time is now. We all must stand together against adversity and proclaim the Gospel of Life to all people.

 

Why Hasn’t the NAACP Denounced the Racist Comments Made by Planned Parenthood’s Founder?

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and John Schnatter, founder of Papa John’s

By Rev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr.
Black News

Nationwide — The NAACP religiously monitors the world for racist comments made by dignitaries, especially elected officials and organizations opposing the Democrat Party. The bias demonstrated is consistent with the decline of relevancy on issues adversely affecting the very people they were created to protect.

When informed and genuine advocates of the African American community see the devastating effects of eugenic policies perpetrated upon people-of-color, then learn the origins and racist comments as well as practices of the leading abortion provider Planned Parenthood, they are left baffled at the silence of America’s most prestigious defenders of civil rights. Let me enumerate some undeniable and inconvenient truths…

#1 – 1,786 African American children are killed each day by abortion.

#2 – Abortion is systemic and deliberate, and the leading provider of abortion in America is Planned Parenthood.

#3 – 52% of all African American pregnancies end in abortion.

#4 – Abortion is the most performed operation on a woman. It remains the least regulated medical procedure and is often completely ignored by health regulation enforcement.

#5 – Since the beginning of the eugenic plot to fraudulently produce the case of “Roe VS Wade” to the Supreme Court in 1973 – where ironically five white males claimed “…they didn’t know where life began…” – a holocaust where over 20 Million African American children have been systematically annihilated by abortion and thus denied access to the American Dream.

But where did this eugenic holocaust and denial of the American Dream begin? It began with Margaret Sanger, the founder and chief facilitator of the eugenic and systemic plan of abortion. She was an avowed White Supremist and was quoted as saying, “…colored people are human weeds and need to be exterminated… reckless breeders… spawning… human beings who never should have been born…” Margaret Sanger, “Pivot of Civilization.” 

Sanger, was in her time, the leading advocate of the eugenics movement, specifically of negative eugenics, which promoted the reduction of sexual reproduction and sterilization of people with undesired traits or economic conditions. 

She wrote, “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Margaret Sanger, “Women and the New Race” (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923).

If you doubt what I’m setting out here, you can read her works for yourself on the internet. You will be shocked. Margaret Sanger has nothing on “Papa John.” The University of Louisville said it will remove the Papa John’s name from its football stadium, and that it will rename the John H. Schnatter Center for Free Enterprise at its business college. Why? He used the “n” word and thus his name removed but Margaret Sanger’s name is still heralded and is still in the Smithsonian. What’s up with that? After all, this is far more important than pizza.

The documentary Maafa 21 empirically proves Margaret Sanger collaborated with the Nazi regime and corresponded regularly. Adolf Hitler commended and thanked her for her guidance in their eugenic implementation in Germany leading to the Final Solution and ultimately the Holocaust where Blacks, Jews and Gypsies were deemed inferior and targeted for sterilization and death in concentration camps. 

As well as collaborating with the Germans, Margaret Sanger also had the distinction of speaking over a dozen times at Ku Klux Klan rallies in the United Sates, and while she was speaking at these Klan Rallies, the Klan were at the same time actively lynching African Americans.

Black News article continues here