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Support or reject Apartheid

The Church and the segregation policy.

Despite  the government's policy of Apartheid which the Church was fighting against, we find that even in the Church there were there was segregation.  That is where blacks had no power in the authority but only the whites.   This is ironic because the Church had been fighting against Apartheid but only to find the very same people are practicing Apartheid in the Church.

During the period of 1960s we  find  a huge segregation the Church.  In some other areas such as Margate which is in the South Coast of KwaZulu Natal they would not allow the black Bishops to take authority in the Church.  I think the reason for that was the fact that they wanted to preserve the "white supremacy" just like what the government wanted.

Even though the Church was occupied by what we can call Apartheid, there were people inside the Church who straggled for transformation.  The one of those people was Archbishop Hurley. He did not like  the Church to proceed the way it was proceeding.  He wanted to get rid of white Authority and also he wanted everyone to be equal.  He had oppositions in the Church as well as outside the Church.  What I can say about this man is that he was not like other whites who were determined to deprive the blacks.  He was an exception who devoted himself to serve the Church as well as the community around.  Like other Catholic Bishops we cannot exclude the fact another aim could be to get many people who would follow the Roman Catholic religion. I think this was a good way to attract the people since the people would view the Catholic as the protector.