Day: November 4, 2017

FBI believed that Martin Luther King Jr. had secret lovechild, orgies

So did David Garrow, whose 1986 biography of King, Bearing the Cross, is full of references to King’s sexual escapades.

Garrow wrote about a number of extramarital affairs, including one woman King saw almost daily. According to Garrow, “that relationship … increasingly became the emotional centerpiece of King’s life, but it did not eliminate the incidental couplings … of King’s travels.”

He alleged that King explained his extramarital affairs as “a form of anxiety reduction.” Garrow asserted that King’s supposed promiscuity caused him “painful and at times overwhelming guilt.” (Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. William Morrow & Co. 1986. pp. 375–6)

See also selections from Bearing the Cross here.

The FBI story here.

He remains an icon, of course. Even today I heard him quoted in a sermon. Nobody’s going to tear down any of his statues. Ever.

Father B. gives lesson on how to say mass the Novus Ordo way

Sunday sermons, weekday observations

By praying it, not announcing or declaiming and not scanning the audience as if giving a lecture or teaching a class. He really means it, and we know it. It’s how liturgy should be. It’s the sine qua non of liturgical practice. You gotta have heart, you can’t be looking around.

The “pray, brothers and sisters” — Orate, fratres in Latin-mass days and still now in the so-called extraordinary form — is another story, of course. Addressing the people, he looks at them. He does not spout the words as if magical incantations. “Behold the Lamb of God — Ecce Agnus Dei — and other parts, same thing.

Novus Ordo? It’s the Paul VI mass, presumably reflecting the wishes of the Vatican 2 council fathers (bishops from around the world) but arguably altered beyond anything most of them had in mind.

Most of us are accustomed to it by…

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