My mostly all white gigantic parish recently grabbed a wondering person who walked into our mass, utilizing about 4 ushers to tackle him, shove him up the main aisle, and literally shove him out the door and slam it behind him locking him out.
He wondered into the service at the end of it, and was walking up the aisle, looking at the cross on the wall.
Everyone was seated.
He walked up groaning loudly and when he reached the foot of the cross, he looked up. He extended his arms.
He groaned loudly again, speech or language not something he could manage at the moment.
He wasn't prayed over, nothing at all was mentioned after he was forced out the door, no one said to pray for him.
He was shown the street, where no one could see if he was going to wonder into the street or needed to go the the hospital or anything at all.
Totally disgusted, I can see the validity of many points made here.
People who are suffering in this way are treated so very badly, I don't think I will ever recover from the pure hatred and disgust of fellow Catholics over the least of these.
Its not the church I blame, but individual leaders and people who are members.
I don't blame God at all.
The example I saw, it is really making me think of leaving, though.
I just want to vomit.
There are no words for the disgust I have seen there over other people who have mental illness of any kind at all.
It is vile to me, really, just totally not at all they way of Christ.
Its not just the whispers of racist remarks here and there, but this behavior shows to me that really, the most hated group of all, are people who have known mental illness.