Decades after Civil Rights movement, Alabama parish gives ‘doubly sacred’ witness to faith, freedom
The cited article from EWTN News (February 27, 2026) celebrates the City of St. Jude Parish in Montgomery, Alabama, for its historical role in hosting Civil Rights marchers in 1965. It describes the site as “doubly sacred”—sacred as a Roman Catholic parish and sacred as a locus of the “struggle for true racial and social justice.” The article frames this event as a high point of Catholic witness, aligning the parish’s actions with a “search for freedom” praised by President Lyndon Johnson. This narrative, however, represents a profound and dangerous departure from integral Catholic doctrine, reducing the supernatural mission of the Church to a naturalistic, human-centered program of social reform. It is a quintessential expression of the post-conciliar “Church of the New Advent,” which has exchanged the cultus divinus for the cult of man and the reign of Christ for the reign of secular ideologies.



