Archbishop of Detroit
Allen H. Vigneron will continue his
call for metro Detroit faithful to
reject the violence and sin of
racism. (Photos by
Mike Stechschulte, The Michigan
Catholic)
Detroit
Archbishop
to
doubledown
for
victory
over the
sin of
racism,
during
Mass at
Farmington
Hills
church
DETROIT
-
Archbishop
of Detroit
Allen H.
Vigneron
will
continue
his call
for
metro
Detroit
faithful
to
reject
the
violence
and sin
of
racism
during a
12 p.m.
Mass
Sunday,
April 15
at St.
Fabian
Catholic
Church,
32200 W.
Twelve
Mile
Road in
Farmington
Hills.
His
visit to
the
parish
comes
after he
and his
brother
bishops
at the
United
States
Conference
of
Catholic
Bishops
marked
the
solemn
fiftieth
anniversary
of the
assassination
of Dr.
Martin
Luther
King Jr.
"Reading
the
'signs
of the
times,'
the U.S.
bishops
have
resolved
to
redouble
our
efforts
to lead
the
Church
in
making
real and
effective
Christ's
victory
over the
sins of
racism,"
Archbishop
Vigneron
said.
"This
Sunday
at St.
Fabian
Church,
I will
preach
to
proclaim
that God
our
Father,
in
raising
his Son
Jesus
from the
dead,
has
vanquished
every
power
that
seeks to
hold,
bound in
the
darkness,
the true
good of
his sons
and
daughters.
Especially
in our
time and
in our
community,
we claim
this as
a
victory
over
every
act,
attitude
or
structure
that
would
seek to
propagate
the lie
that
members
of some
races
are
inferior
to
others."
Monsignor
Timothy
Hogan,
pastor
of St.
Fabian
Church,
welcomes
the
archbishop
and
calls on
the
faith to
connect
the
resurrection
of Jesus
Christ
to the
banishment
of all
racial
violence.
"Racism
is a
denial
of the
message
of
Jesus,
who came
to
redeem
all
nations
and
invite
all
people
to the
living
waters
of
baptism
that
make us
one in
Christ,"
Msgr.
Hogan
said.
"If we
deny
anyone
his or
her
dignity
as a
person,
we deny
the
truth of
the
resurrection
of
Jesus."
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