Commentary: The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior remarked in 1963, at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo:
"We must face the fact that in America, the church is still the most segregated major institution in America. At 11:00 on Sunday morning when we stand and sing and Christ has no east or west, we stand at the most segregated hour in this nation. This is tragic. Nobody of honesty can overlook this."Much progress has been made in the last fifty-five years, but much work yet remains to be done. Each of us must ask himself, "What am I doing to heal the sad divisions in the Body of Christ? How am I helping us all to be one, as Christ & the Father are One? Next Saturday, I aim to attend a lecture at Dorothy's House of Coffee in downtown Flint on the life & ministry of Father Norman DuKette (1890-1980), the priest who founded & shepherded Christ the King, Flint's predominantly African-American Catholic parish: Biography-link & Dorothy's-link
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