My Dad's Attack On The Discriminatory Banking Practice Called "Redlining"

 

Alan: In the 1960s, my Dad (and fellow Catholic activists in Rochester, New York), bought homes on behalf of black people who had been excluded from living in the suburbs by the standard "white" banking practice known as "redlining." https://www.thoughtco.com/redlining-definition-4157858

My memory is that Rochester Bishop, Fulton J. Sheen, approved Dad's initiative, simultaneously surprising most Catholics by championing a number of liberal-progressive causes.

 

In 1967, Bishop Sheen denounced the Vietnam War.

On Sheen's Wikipedia page, check out "Later Years", "Death and Legacy", and the "Cause for Canonization" which was derailed by Rochester's current Bishop Salvatore Matano, a prickly, hidebound -- and seemingly smart -- Catholic, who, in my view, makes the common (heretical) mistake of valuing "righteousness" over goodness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_J._Sheen 

Be good -  a way of living which includes getting into "good trouble" -- and righteousness will take care of itself.

Virtue is its own reward.

Vice is its own punishment.

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