Please see discussion below, particularly my clarification of Schweitzer’s remarks:

“It is not wrong to speak of sub-classes, sub-races or sub-groups when it comes to civilizational abilities. The Catholic Church (as opposed to the modernist Counterfeit) never embraced modern egalitarianism, which holds that everyone has the same abilities and all races are the same. Nevertheless, the Church believes that all races have their strengths and their role in God’s divine plan. All races have their weaknesses and their own tendencies toward evil. Indeed, look at the immense harm the white race has brought upon the world in its utopian ideas and apostasy.”

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Roberta D. writes:

Sub class?

I would like to offer some additional information on that idea, and a contrast in words from another source. Unlike Albert Schweitzer, who did not hold traditional Christian beliefs, he was a CATHOLIC missionary in Africa amongst that time frame.

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was a missionary in Africa from 1932 until 1959 as a member of the Holy Ghost Fathers, later to be elected their Superior General.

When first appointed in 1948 by Pope Pius XII as his Apostolic Delegate of Dakar (French-speaking Africa), Archbishop Lefebvre oversaw the Catholic Church in 18 African countries. By 1959, his territory of apostolic work had expanded to 12 archdioceses, 36 dioceses, and 13 Italian Apostolic Prefectures consisting of these modern-day countries:

– Morocco (southern desert region)
– Algeria (Saharan desert region)
– Mauritania
– Mali
– Central African Republic
– Senegal
– Guinea
– The Gambia
– Cote d’Ivorie
– Benin
– Togo
– Niger
– Chad
– Cameroon
– Gabon
– Congo
– Madagascar
– Le Reunion

During the sermon for his 50th Priestly Jubilee Mass, Archbishop Lefebvre spoke of how he witnessed the spread of the Catholic Faith in Africa:

“Certainly I knew, by the studies which we had done, what this great mystery of our Faith was, but I had not yet understood its entire value, efficacy and depth. Thus I lived day by day, year by year, in Africa and particularly at Gabon, where I spent 13 years of my missionary life, first at the seminary and then in the bush among the Africans, with the natives. There I saw—yes, I saw—what the grace of the Holy Mass could do.

I saw it in the holy souls of some of our catechists. I saw it in those pagan souls transformed by assistance at Holy Mass, and by the Holy Eucharist. These souls understood the mystery of the Sacrifice of the Cross and united themselves to Our Lord Jesus Christ in the sufferings of His Cross, offering their sacrifices and their sufferings with Our Lord Jesus Christ and living as Christians.

 …These [were] men produced by the grace of the Mass. They assisted at the Mass daily, communicating with great fervor and they have become models and the light to those about them. This is just to list a few without counting the many Christians transformed by this grace.

I was able to see these pagan villages become Christian—being transformed not only, I would say, spiritually and supernaturally, but also being transformed physically, socially, economically and politically; because these people, pagans which they were, became cognizant of the necessity of fulfilling their duties, in spite of the trials, in spite of the sacrifices; of maintaining their commitments, and particularly their commitment in marriage.

 Then the village began to be transformed, little by little, under the influence of grace, under the influence of the grace of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and soon all the villages were wanting to have one of the fathers visit them. Oh, the visit of a missionary! They waited impatiently to assist at the Holy Mass, in order to be able to confess their sins and then to receive Holy Communion.

Some of these souls also consecrated themselves to God: nuns, priests, brothers giving themselves to God, consecrating themselves to God. There you have the fruit of the Holy Mass.”

How did the Mass direct all these souls towards holiness? The Pontiff explicitly says: ‘It is necessary that we study somewhat the profound motive of this transformation: sacrifice.'”

May God bless you and your site.

Laura writes:

Thank you for writing and for your good wishes.

It is not wrong to speak of sub-classes, sub-races or sub-groups when it comes to civilizational abilities. The Catholic Church (as opposed to the modernist Counterfeit) never embraced modern egalitarianism, which holds that everyone has the same abilities and all races are the same. Nevertheless, the Church believes that all races have their strengths and their role in God’s divine plan. All races have their weaknesses and their own tendencies to sin. Indeed, look at the immense harm the white race has brought upon the world in its utopian ideas and apostasy.”

In his encyclical Humanum Genus, Pope Leo XIII, for instance, wrote:

In like manner, no one doubts that all men are equal one to another, so far as regards their common origin and nature, or the last end which each one has to attain, or the rights and duties which are thence derived. But, as the abilities of all are not equal, as one differs from another in the powers of mind or body, and as there are very many dissimilarities of manner, disposition, and character, it is most repugnant to reason to endeavor to confine all within the same measure, and to extend complete equality to the institutions of civic life.

Schweitzer, I admit, was not the best person to quote. His apparent good will toward Africans, demonstrated by his medical work, only makes his observations noteworthy.

I could have instead quoted Pope Pius IX in his indulgenced prayer for Africa of 1873:

“Lord Jesus Christ, only Savior of the entire human race, who already rule from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth: open propitiously Your Most Sacred Heart even to the most wretched souls of Central Africa, who still sit in darkness and the shadow of death; that through the intercession of the most pious Virgin Mary, your Immaculate Mother, and her most glorious spouse, blessed Joseph, having abandoned their idols, the Ethiopians may fall down before You, and be aggregated to Your holy Church.” [Book of Indulgences, 1878]

This prayer was written nearly 1900 years after the Apostles first spread the faith, which was introduced into the African continent in the early years.

I could have quoted Bishop Comboni, head of the Institute for African Missions in the 19th century who presented a petition to the First Vatican Council to implore the mercy of God for Africans due to their degraded condition and failure to convert. Sixty-eight priests in Africa signed the petition (which, I believe, was never acted upon by the council.)

I could have quoted the request in 1944 by Pope Pius XII that black American troops not be stationed in Rome because of their tendency to rape women.

I also could have quoted the Rev. James Meagher, D.D., author of many approved Catholic works, who wrote in 1908:

Rising from his sacrifice, Noe blessed and cursed, as Christ was to rise from the tomb after his sacrifice and bless his followers with the gift of the Holy Ghost, while the curse of his blood rested on the Jewish nation.

“Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.” He could not curse Ham, for God had blessed the three sons and the curse rested on Canaan’s children. Ham’s sons settled Palestine, which they cursed with the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah. But Ham’s tribes settled Africa, and find their vocation as slaves and servants waiting on the white men. Cursed in the passion their father mocked in Noe, the African race love to serve as servants to the other races. Living since in deepest degradation, among them never rose religion, literature, invention, genius, or progress. The other races will not receive on an equality one in whose veins flows their tainted blood.

I could have also quoted early missionaries to the African continent who lamented the theft practiced by the natives.

That Africans can, and have, converted to the true faith is not in question and that it has brought personal and social benefits in terms of character and virtue  is not in doubt. That Africans are not themselves to blame for some of their shortcomings is apparently why missionaries found the Curse of Ham theory so compelling.

It is worth noting, however, that at the time of Lefebvre’s sermon in 1979, Africa was in the process of being convulsed by bloody, Communist revolutions and also, by that time, Marcel Lefebvre had left the Catholic Church, having participated in the great apostasy by signing the Vatican II documents, which are rife with heresies, blasphemies and deliberate confusion.

Roberta D. responds:

Thank you. As you said, of course, not all peoples or races are the same or have equal abilities or gifts, but, I guess my point was, for what it’s worth, and according to what is said that the Church holds, that doesn’t necessarily make them sub classed.

A lot of their inabilities, as is mentioned, may also stem from their pagan culture and possible need for spiritual deliverence. Also, there are a lot of powerful forces that deliberately work to bring certain races down. I believe we are experiencing a lot of this “sub classness” among some white people in our own country now due to the very same things.

Just my thoughts.

Laura writes:

Innate differences create different cultures.

If you take a person who has no innate musical ability, no amount of Christian piety will make him into a concert pianist.

Africa has been exposed to Christianity for thousands of years. It has not made it capable of producing an advanced civilization, as Fr. Meagher pointed out. Much foreign aid to Africa is lost to corruption, as most ordinary Africans will tell you. Africa will be controlled by Russia, China or the West. That’s just a fact.

When Africans came to the New World as slaves, they left behind worse forms of slavery and cannibalism. Exposed to Christian beliefs and European civilization, they did benefit, spiritually and morally. But that didn’t make them capable of sustaining many safe or beautiful neighborhoods, or of becoming in, most cases, electrical engineers or even college graduates. Of course, they’ve also been exposed to huge amounts of Marxist social engineering. Whites have spent trillions of dollars to support them and have received heaps of ingratitude, crime and revenge in return. Blacks are taught and encouraged to feel this way. There was very little crime or this kind of resentment in the South under slavery, and not because blacks were brutalized. Blacks were even happy to have left Africa. This resentment is partly because of Jewish agendas, but also because whites themselves love their fantasies of remaking human nature. They can’t abide the fact of inequality because it leaves no room for their own power over nature or because of too much propaganda about evil, mean whites.

But anyway, many blacks in Africa don’t think the way you do. They know there are innate, inborn differences. It’s just so obvious and they are honest about it, unless they are into the Communist grift.

I remember reading once about a European doctor who went to an African country and installed the very first emergency response system for medical help. This was not long ago. The entire country, one of the better African countries, had never had such a thing. Do you think blacks aren’t grateful for that, at least privately, and don’t see the difference in races? They do. They absolutely do.

I remember reading also about farmers in one of the countries — Rhodesia, I think — where whites had been kicked out. The black farmers went to the few whites who had managed to stay despite their homes being burned to the ground and having lost everything. The blacks begged them to teach them to farm.

I know of a home healthcare agency for the elderly that gets requests from customers that are very specific: “No black aides for my Mom!” All the racial pieties in the world can’t force them to expose their loved ones to possible black cruelty and viciousness. But I guess this is just because of their difficult circumstances!? Because blacks are poor!? Yes, it’s true they live in a pagan environment, but aren’t we all required to search for goodness until we find it?