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Abp. Charles Chaput condemns racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia

Statement of Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

Racism is a poison of the soul. It’s the ugly, original sin of our country, an illness that has never fully healed. Blending it with the Nazi salute, the relic of a regime that murdered millions, compounds the obscenity. Thus the wave of public anger about white nationalist events in Charlottesville this weekend is well warranted. We especially need to pray for those injured in the violence.
But we need more than pious public statements. If our anger today is just another mental virus displaced tomorrow by the next distraction or outrage we find in the media, nothing will change. Charlottesville matters. It’s a snapshot of our public unraveling into real hatreds brutally expressed; a collapse of restraint and mutual respect now taking place across the country. We need to keep the images of Charlottesville alive in our memories. If we want a different kind of country in the future, we need to start today with a conversion in our own hearts, and an insistence on the same in others. That may sound simple. But the history of our nation and its tortured attitudes toward race proves exactly the opposite.

+Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
Archbishop of Philadelphia



tbswv
One thing that has been left out of the discussion about the mob violence in Charlottesville is the lack of police enforcement by the police commissioner, mayor, and governor of Virginia. They are all responsible in the women's death at the rally. The police stood down while Antifa and BLM attacked white nationalists. This could have been prevented but as usual those in authority failed to do their …More
One thing that has been left out of the discussion about the mob violence in Charlottesville is the lack of police enforcement by the police commissioner, mayor, and governor of Virginia. They are all responsible in the women's death at the rally. The police stood down while Antifa and BLM attacked white nationalists. This could have been prevented but as usual those in authority failed to do their jobs. That is the reality. It also a fact that Soros money is behind these group and no doubt in my mind that he also has a hand in this tragedy. Soros should be arrested and imprisoned for instigating violence.
Jungerheld
If Chaput has not mentioned in this statement "BLM racism" or the antifa movement, it isn't because he condones it! Is anyone suggesting that? The "left" has been trying to pin this white supremacist movement on the conservative right since the significant beginning of the last two election cycles.
allan500
Where was Chaput's statement against the much larger and more widespread and violent actions of Black Lives Matter?
Maudie N Mandeville
Did the archbishop condemn #BLM racism? Didn't think so, only whites.