“Unerring suffering is redemptive”
Who do you think said that?
Pope Benedict? My parish priest? St. Augustine?
No, no and no again.
The person who said it would have made a darn good Catholic!
It was said by a man who was killed in 1968.
This man had a dream that (among many things) one day Protestants and Catholics would stand hand in hand against injustice.
It was said by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (in his I Have a Dream speech — at about the 11+ minute)
As Prince Lackadasia said in the com-box: “King’s life and struggle embodied our church’s social teaching, and how his memory presents us today with a challenge to carry on the struggle against racism, poverty and war wherever they exist.”
An interesting “aside” — I remember that when I started attending The University of Houston in 1980 they did NOT acknowledge the day for Rev. King. (If you were not born yet – let me assure you, it WAS a national holiday at that time!) We started our spring semester classes on MLK day. The born and bred Yankee in me was appalled at the loud and clear message. In those days there was also a KKK bookstore advertising itself in bigger than life letters right off 45S in Pasadena, just outside of Houston. (45 is a major freeway that runs through Houston – a city of about 1,600,000 at the time). I remember I almost went running back to Philly where things like this would never be tolerated. As I talked to other Yankees and then, tentatively, to southerners, I realized that we had to stick together if we ever hoped for any kind of change.
The struggle definitely continues “against racism, poverty and war wherever they exist.”
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