I don’t see why we can’t hold what she’s saying in it’s intended uncomfortable tension: Fr. Damien was an incredibly holy man and the popular narrative always erases the voices and images of indigenous peoples because we want to skip over the atrocities of colonialism.
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And this is your reminder that I, a devout Black Catholic, have laid eyes on the Catholic Church atop an underground slave dungeon and had to grapple with what that meant...and that this is a generally unknown and untaught fact in the year of our Lord 2020.
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It’s a very Catholic thing to believe, “we are the fullness of the faith/truth” as if that absolves the harm committed against real people in real time that has generational effects unto this very day.
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Adding a response to the main thread: I’m just a girl in her pajamas procrastinating on Twitter, but I say these things because our faith IS the framework to heal from all of the these things, and I wish we’d collectively step up instead of whining about being persecuted.
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A couple more thoughts before I mute this thread: As a Black Catholic, I intuitively get what AOC is saying because she's talking about a tension that I (and other POC) live with daily. I have to use both my identities, both of my hands, to hold onto my faith or I'll lose it.
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Multiple things can be true at the same time. Christianity was the colonizer's religion. Christianity set the captives free, not because White Christians suddenly decided POC were worth something like magic, but because Christ never abandons His poor, not even one sheep.
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Western Christians, and specifically Catholics, like to skip over the history of how our faith was weaponized and fail to examine its effects today. There are two canonized saints from Hawaii, both non-native. Canonization takes time, effort, & a ton of money. What does that say?
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