Actually, white-washing is one of my biggest pet peeves with Catholic schlock. One of my biggest pet peeves are all the holy cards and depictions of the saints as white. Just about EVERY saint is depticted as white (for example, the Spanish saints like Teresa de Avila, St. John of the Cross, etc).
The ONLY saints that seem to be multi-cultural are St. Martin de Porres and St. Tekakwitha.
Another pet peeve is how we butcher the saints' names by Americanizing them (for example (again) Avila, de Sales, etc).
Yeah... it's embarrassing that such an amazingly rich cultural faith is misrepresented so much by Catholic companies. But then... I've seen plenty of Asian, and Black Madonnas with Child, so *shrugs* I guess it's just the state of things.
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Date: 2010-10-26 03:09 am (UTC)The ONLY saints that seem to be multi-cultural are St. Martin de Porres and St. Tekakwitha.
Another pet peeve is how we butcher the saints' names by Americanizing them (for example (again) Avila, de Sales, etc).
Yeah... it's embarrassing that such an amazingly rich cultural faith is misrepresented so much by Catholic companies. But then... I've seen plenty of Asian, and Black Madonnas with Child, so *shrugs* I guess it's just the state of things.