There has been mush ado about race on twitter owing to the irrational and racist claims of mainly two men, Mr. Nick Fuentes and Mr. David Reilly, who claim that Catholicism is about race realism and that all ethnic Catholics are white which is their putative unifying identity, not their language, culture and faith.
Of course that is silly on its face as the Irish are now being called white but the white Irish Catholics are not a unity that includes white Irish Protestants anymore than putatively white German Catholics are a unity with white German Protestants or the putative white French Catholics were in a unity with the white French Huguenots.
Dr. E. Michael Jones, in his great and revealing 2004 book, The Slaughter of Cities, Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing explicates the Catholic tradition of ethnicity and religion as an identifier, not race;
The "negro is a child of God too," (ppg 63-63) the Catholic interracialists would say with an air of something indubitably true, but if true, the moralistic approach was also beside the intent. No matter what Madison Grant may have thought on the matter, people like Father Maguire in Philadelphia and people like Father Lawler in Chicago were not arguing that blacks were subhuman. In defending the integrity of the parish, they were promoting cultural accommodation in a country that was not theirs by birth. They were not promoting a racialist biological worldview or any such thing. According to the traditional American Catholic understanding of the issue, race was more cultural than biological, and in either event not something that disqualified one from salvation or church membership. Race was synonymous with ethnos and ethnos was a part of nature and to be treated as such when it came to the administration of parishes in the United States. This was the traditional point of view, and when the Catholic abandoned it, it was not without consequences for both Church and State.
Messrs Fuentes and Reilly are all over Twitter claiming that race is a legit traditional criterion of Catholicism and they produce - always without a link to their sources- putative quotes by Prelates claiming racism is good, that white is a traditonal Catholic identifier etc.
Every single time I look up what they claim is a quote from a Pope it turns out it the putative claim has almost nothing to do with their fake posts.
Mr. Reilly posted this and spoke about white rather than ethnical community and white is not a synonym for ethnos as was pointed out more than two decades ago by Dr. E. Michael Jones.
Mr. Reilly's recent claim that his involvement with the Charlottesville riot
was about Catholicism and race.
No, he really did say that.
These two and their followers are trying to paint Catholicism as a race realist faith - and for them race is uber alles - and they make up quotes whereas a Papal Encyclical condemns what they are trying to do ;
See # 8, 9 from above;
8. Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community - however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly things - whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God; he is far from the true faith in God and from the concept of life which that faith upholds.
9. Beware, Venerable Brethren, of that growing abuse, in speech as in writing, of the name of God as though it were a meaningless label, to be affixed to any creation, more or less arbitrary, of human speculation. Use your influence on the Faithful, that they refuse to yield to this aberration. Our God is the Personal God, supernatural, omnipotent, infinitely perfect, one in the Trinity of Persons, tri-personal in the unity of divine essence, the Creator of all existence. Lord, King and ultimate Consummator of the history of the world, who will not, and cannot, tolerate a rival God by His side.
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