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Dear Cecilia,I am a black Catholic. Catholic transcends any type of label. So to start viewing the Church through such a sociological/ideological lens is to me reductive, and I, for one, run away from such categories as fast as I can. . . . What the Church must do instead is to reemphasize its Catholicity. . . .The Church must not make the mistake of trying to acommodate itself to the various and sundry secular cultures. Quite frankly, the Church ends up looking ridiculous. . . . No, I actually get offended – I actually bristle – when someone tries to pigeonhole me as a “Black Catholic.” I don’t think of myself as a Black Catholic or a female Catholic or a Southern Catholic or any other such labels. I am Catholic, and as such I am able to be liberated from all the other restrictive labels. . . . So, at the risk of sounding redundant. Let us the Catholic Church not follow the cultural zeitgeist. Rather let us continue to be in the world but not of it by retaining our unity as the Catholic Church, One, Holy, and Apostolic.
Who’s the second coolest Cardinal in the Church today? Arinze. Your case is clinched!