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January 22, 2019

Shameful Behavior By The Covington Diocese

Dana Mathewson

It is normally not my practice to comment on comments made by a diocese of the Catholic (or any other) Church. But in the wake of the kerfuffle that I'm sure everyone's heard about, where a clean-cut group of Catholic students was wrongly accused of racist (oh, how that word is being misused these days) behavior recently by a bunch of race hustlers (and a professional activist) while merely waiting for their bus, and then shamefully being thrown UNDER a bus by their own diocese, which decided it had to debase itself by virtue-signalling, I just must post this.

True, the Diocese is half-heartedly "walking back" its earlier condemnation of the students. But it really should have kept quiet until it determined where the blame really lay. This was not Christian behavior. And one of the priests still has not "done the right thing" as/of this time. (I was referring to Fr. Edward Beck -- turns out he may not be connected to the Covington diocese after all.)

The Diocese of Covington walked back its earlier harsh condemnation of Covington High School Students accused of racism. On its website today there is only one message and all pages are shut down except the following.

On Monday afternoon the Covington Police alerted us that they had intelligence concerning a planned protest, Jan. 22, at Covington Catholic High School and a vigil at the Diocesan Curia. Due to threats of violence and the possibility of large crowds the Diocese was advised to close Covington Catholic High School, the Diocesan Curia and neighboring Covington Latin School. We thank law enforcement officers for their protection and will reopen when they say it is safe to do so.
Concerning the incident in Washington, D.C., between Covington Catholic students, Elder Nathan Phillips and Black Hebrew Israelites the independent, third-party investigation is planned to begin this week. This is a very serious matter that has already permanently altered the lives of many people. It is important for us to gather the facts that will allow us to determine what corrective actions, if any, are appropriate.

We pray that we may come to the truth and that this unfortunate situation may be resolved peacefully and amicably and ask others to join us in this prayer.

We will have no further statements until the investigation is complete.

This call for a thorough investigation would have been welcome news to the parents of the students when the event occurred. Instead, the diocese issued a harsh condemnation of the students without having all the facts just moments after the viral video was widely misreported in the news. The original statement,which is no longer available on the website, even threatened expulsion.

We condemn the actions of the Covington Catholic High School students towards Nathan Phillips specifically, and Native Americans in general.
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.

After more video surfaced that showed that Nathan Phillips was the aggressor and had lied about several facts, there was a loud cry from the public for journalists and the diocese to withdraw their false statements and apologize. The Diocese of Covington left its condemnation up for several days, only changing it today after the cries of injustice grew to a deafening roar. [emphasis mine]

Disclaimer: I am not a Catholic, but my wife is a musician at a local Catholic Church and I have many very close friends there; some of the dearest friends I have. Also, Timothy, the proprietor of this site, is Catholic, and he also is one of my greatest friends. None of the people I just mentioned would have behaved the way these Covington officials have! Christians are, in a nutshell, not supposed to act like this -- they are supposed to examine the situation and find out what happened, to determine the truth, and not to judge their brother Christians until all the facts are in. I greatly fear that Satan has penetrated the ranks of the diocesan leadership.

However, I also believe the teenagers from Covington have been very well brought up, by their parents and their church mentors, and reacted to the situation as well as they possibly could have. If anyone cares to disagree with me, that's why we have comments on this site.

The story is here: https://pjmedia.com/trending/diocese-of-covington-walking-back-condemnation-of-maga-kids/

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 08:10 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 I AM a Catholic and am more than willing to comment on this issue. The diocese of Covington acted disgracefully, and continue to do so. I will make a prediction about their "investigation"; it will be a whitewash (pardon the "racist" word) designed to quiet things down but in the end they will still condemn the kids rather than risk a fight with the radicals. The Catholic Church is full of hypocrites, leftist agnostics, and cowards these days. IF, by some miracle they find the kids innocent, they will dummy up so as not to offend the race hustlers and media.

I would be very surprised if they came out with a statement supporting the kids.

This is despicable. For thirty pieces of silver...

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at January 23, 2019 07:49 AM (P2MsZ)

2 Well, if that diocese condemns those kids, I predict they'll have some very pissed-off parents on their hands. And rightly so. They may even lost some families as a result.
I am going to be partying with some of my wife's choir people tonight, and I fully expect this subject to come up. I'll keep you posted.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 23, 2019 10:43 AM (rIYC+)

3 "lose" some families. (Darn fingers aren't what they used to be.)

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 24, 2019 11:24 AM (rIYC+)

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