The sight of a dozen elderly, white, progressive Catholics singing “We Shall Overcome” as they protested against an African priest who threw out their felt banners would be funny, but for the fact that it happened in a church just after Holy Mass.
The clash between liberal parishioners and Fr George Kuforiji at St Francis parish in Portland, Oregon, blew up in the Catholic media world last week, following the publication of a long feature that ran on the front page of The Oregonian’s Sunday edition on August 11.
