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Racism in Catholic Church 'driving minorities away'
The Roman Catholic church in England and Wales has been accused of discrimination against ethnic minorities by the director of the church's association for racial justice.
The move comes a month before a conference, called by the church itself, to review how it deals with multiracial issues and may cause concern to bishops still reeling from child abuse convictions among the clergy.
The association told the Guardian it will be pressing for an independent inquiry within the church similar to one recently appointed under Lord Nolan to review its procedures for dealing with accusations of paedophilia.
Stephen Corriette, the association's director, claims that there are fewer than 30 black parish priests out of more than 5,600 in the 22 dioceses of England and Wales, just six of them British-born, and that Catholics from ethnic-minority communities are being frozen out of positions of responsibility in parishes. The church itself acknowledged last week that the figures were "probably correct" and admitted that its most recent statistics for priests in training showed just 16 black priests being ordained and a further 21 in seminaries.
Roman Catholicism in Britain is perceived as the most white of the major denominations - the majority of British immigrants have not come from Catholic countries - though the association estimates that 12% of its communicants are from ethnic minority backgrounds.
At a service at Westminster Cathedral, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the restoration of Catholic bishops to Britain, earlier this year, none of the 300 priests in attendance was black nor any of the altar servers or choir boys.
Mr Corriette, born in Britain of Caribbean parents, said: "It is ironic that the Catholic church calls itself universal when it is driving black people away by its attitudes."
Mr Corriette has compiled a dossier of racist incidents. A priest told a young unmarried black couple that he would not baptise their child "because you people believe in babies outside marriage and then expect me to christen them". Another refused a family a requiem mass because they wanted to sing a Caribbean song during the service.
Another told the association that he would refuse to have refugees in his presbytery "because everything of value would be gone in five minutes".
Mr Corriette said: "Priests have told me, 'We don't have a problem with racism here because we don't have any black people'. They always talk of us as a problem.
"I heard a seminarian say that he did not need racism awareness training because he did not intend to work in a parish where there would be black people. These attitudes do not exist just among the elderly - there is a culture that is almost colonialist."
The church has come close to acknowledging the problem. Earlier this year, guidelines for parishes to review their practices described institutional racism as "a form of structural sin and primarily a sin of omission".
It added: "We can't assume that Catholic organisations... are unaffected. In such a situation we become culpable if we fail to take stock and examine carefully the nature of the service we offer."
A spokesman for the Catholic media office said: "There is no evidence to suggest deliberate exclusion of minorities but nor are a great number coming forward for training as priests."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/oct/16/race.religion