By Richard Mellor in California
A MESSAGE FROM THE DIOCESE OF COVINGTON AND COVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL:
We condemn the actions of the Covington Catholic High School students towards Nathan Phillips specifically, and Native Americans in general, Jan. 18, after the March for Life, in Washington, D.C. We extend our deepest apologies to Mr. Phillips. This behavior is opposed to the Church’s teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person.
The matter is being investigated and we will take appropriate action, up to and including expulsion.
We know this incident also has tainted the entire witness of the March for Life and express our most sincere apologies to all those who attended the March and all those who support the pro-life movement. The Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic High School
The message above is on the website of Covington Catholic High School that is apparently the fine institution that is home to some or all of the young men, wearing Make America Great Again hats, who harassed and tormented Native Americans in Washington DC. It appears these males were in DC as anti-abortionists and took the opportunity to terrorize a Native American veteran and mock Native American culture.
This doesn’t surprise this author for many reasons. This a fancy school, so these students are mostly likely from middle-class backgrounds and have been taught – as these people are from birth – that they are superior beings, born to lead. That’s why they can attend such a fine institution. They are middle or upper-middle-class, white and male; you can’t get a better start in life than that.
The Catholic Church is the dominant religion of capitalism across the world today. It is the only religion with its own state and therefore has diplomatic relations in every country where it has a presence. It is also rife with corruption, racism and misogyny.
To say that the students’ disgusting behaviour – racism, and the fact that they were there in the first place to deny women the right to control their own bodies, sexist – originates in the family is wrong. Where does the family learn it? We are not born racists, homophobic, misogynists, or xenophobes. We are taught it by institutions in society. It is through these institutions that the ruling class controls the media and the institutions of learning that these ideologies originate.
Tweet from Fr Phillip W De Vous:
Why are women involved in feminist & antifem causes so dreadful looking? One suspects the attractive have better things to do.
The author of this sexist tweet, Fr. Philip W. De Vous is a staff member and pastor at St. Joseph Parish Church in Crescent Springs Kentucky. He was public policy manager of the Acton Institute whose mission it is to “…promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.”
The distance between Covington High School, the fancy Catholic school wherethose nasty arrogant young petit-bourgeois learn their trade, and St Joseph’s school is a mere 4 miles, an 11 minute Journey. It’s not hard to figure out where these characters get their thinking from as the not so (female) friendly Phil DeVous reflects the real attitude the Catholic Church has toward women. And I don’t care how many pictures of Martin Luther King they may hang on their walls. I am not saying all Catholics are racists, but this global institution is.
It is easy, as a friend of mine on FB said, to see the root cause of this nastiness. It’s interesting that Covington sent some of its young nasties up to Washington to protest against a woman’s right to choose, but I’ll bet they never even considered sending any to protest the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the St. Louis suburb. They must have had such a good time discovering that not only could they harass women, but some Native Americans whose stolen land they live on and on which their schools and churches are built.
January 21, 2019
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