Parishioners Nebiat Michael and Frances Umeh from the Catholic community of Our Lady of Fatima in White City, West London, join Father Richard Nesbitt for a conversation on a variety of issues concerning racial justice. Nebiat and Frances took part in regular Sunday night parish Zoom discussions that, alongside Father Richard, looked to improve awareness in the parish. We need to address the lack of visible diversity at every level, so that people can see themselves, their race, their culture and their history in the Church’s life - something Frances and Nebiat discuss at length.
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Watching this video makes me disgusted to be part of this catholic community not only you discussed this on todays Sundays mass but watching this in-depth video makes me feel marginalized because of my skin colour, We understand racism dose exist, but making someone feel that their skin colour they have some sort of advantage or disadvantage growing up which is a lie, its all up to wealth and opportunity's which the government has failed to act through the 10 years of austerity and cuts and I am sorry to say if you keep down this road you going to lose parts of your community I think you need to listen to other people because the people you talking too have a huge bias against races.
Prejudice, hatred, greed, and violence will never end through human means as they are part of our fallen nature. There are those who feign victimhood in order to gain attention to themselves as well as to evade accountability for their own decisions.
Thank you for this content. People of every race deserves equal dignity and rights. If we ever deny our unique status in creation as Gods only image-bearers, we will soon begin to depreciate the value of human life, and will tend to see humans as merely a higher form of animal, and will begin to treat others as such. 12:00 - May I ask, why must a saint be of a similar race in order to identify with them? Instead, I implore you to to consider Gen 1:26 ‘Let is make man in our image, after our likeness’ as man being like God in the following ways: intellectual ability, moral purity, spiritual nature, dominion over the earth, creativity, ability to make ethical choices, and immorality. I echo Kai Whyte’s comment and agree that this ideology should not be pushed further, in that equality should consist not outcome, but of opportunity (for which all are welcome into the Church!). Otherwise, there is the danger of utterances of Marxism. God Bless