Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: hetyei@athena.mit.edu (Gabor Hetyei) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: ambitious women may approach the altar now ... Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 00:06:36 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 14 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , MNHCC@cunyvm.bitnet writes: |> I don't know, nor do I particularly care, how St. Augustine would be |> classified by ethnographers. However, when you said that the Catholic |> Church never ordained black men as priests you should be prepared to |> show that the North African Catholics, such as St. Augustine, were |> not black. Furthermore, I went beyond St. Augustine and pointed out |> the the Church in North Africa went at least as far south as Ethiopia. Unfortunately I did not read the original article, but as far as I know, there is a fair amount of Black priests and bishops in the Catholic church. Right now we have some 24 Black cardinals, and I would not be surprised having a Black pope sooner or later. Gabor Hetyei