Holy Angels

Here. I've highlighted for you the critical phrase which you seem to have completely overlooked. You're welcome. When theologians say the Church gives jurisdiction in extreme cases whenever necessary for the salvation of souls, even when it would otherwise not be possessed, they are not talking about some other kind of jurisdiction separate from that which Christ granted to the Church from the beginning. So any mention of an extraordinary mission is simply to completely fail to understand the matter in the first place.

Another tidbit from the Vatican newspaper for Oct 28, 1956. Allow me to explain. Cardinal Stritch was one of the great members of the hierarchy in the US. He was staunchly Catholic. I've been to his archives a few times and have had the opportunity to see his private correspondence on various issues of the day in which he fought liberal errors. As a true spiritual Father, he realized the evils of segregation in this country and publicly spoke against it since at least 1940. In 1944, he received a letter from Mrs. Maude Johnston, a black Catholic, detailing how she had nearly died of a heart attack when a Catholic hospital refused to take her as a patient. The doctor had told her over the phone to come, but when she arrived and he saw the color of her skin, he said they could not take her. She nearly died on the way to another hospital. She said it was very difficult for her to talk to others about the Catholic Faith when things like this happen. Her husband stopped going to church. In 1955, Cardinal Stritch strongly condemned such discrimination in an address at a Hospital Conference and worked to put an end to segregation in Catholic hospitals. "If there is one thing that is clear in Catholic doctrine," he said, "it is that there can be no distinction of color, no distinction of race or nationality." He said the United States had seriously erred in this matter in the past, and that there will "always be those who yield to passion and those who yield to unfortunate prejudices..." But: "How can we kneel before our blessed Savior on the Cross with His arms outstretched for all, and limit our charity and limit our ministration to any particular group?" In 1956, he spoke out again, saying "racial segregation is the darkest page" in American history. This, and a few other excerpts, were published as seen in this screenshot of the Vatican newspaper. At the same time, Pope Pius XII was communicating with various clergy in the US about this injustice, and in 1958 spoke of the evil of the "color-bar," a clear reference to circumstances in the US and certain other countries. Once again, those Catholics who think they need to defend segregation or, worse yet, advocate it, find themselves on the wrong side of good Catholic clergy and the magisterium of the Church. They are deceived when they think they are being "anti-liberal" by promoting such prejudices. Rather, they are falling right into the liberal trap. What should matter to us is not color, blood, or genes, but the Faith and a virtuous life. Even then, Catholics have always sought the conversion of those in error, which, as St. Vincent de Paul insisted, is never accomplished without charity having something to do with it. There is no charity in the deliberately inflammatory posts and comments of certain Catholics today who make comments about race and racism that always seem to have blacks on the receiving end of their discrimination.