A Catholic racist refused the Eucharist from an Indian woman, then bragged about it online
The bigotry revealed how some people would rather listen to Nick Fuentes than Jesus
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It’s always helpful when racists out themselves.
That’s what a right-wing extremist named Mike—a Groyper and Catholic—did recently when he announced to the world that he refused to accept the Eucharist at church because it was being distributed by an Indian woman. Instead, he walked over to a different line headed up by a white priest because he assumed it was cleaner.
Okay. Well, I did a bad thing in Church today.
I refused to receive the Eucharist from an Indian woman. I was supposed to go to her. She was in my aisle, but across the Church was the white priest, so I walked across all the pews and received it from him, for fear that I might get fecal matter on my Eucharist, receiving it from an Indian woman.
Plus, I’m not gonna receive it from anyone who’s non-white. Sorry.
Considering what’s happening in the U.S. and in the world with our replacement, I’m not doing that.
I guess I’ll go confess this to my priest. But I’ll continue doing it. That’s the compromise.
The racism isn’t surprising coming from an admitted fan of Nick Fuentes. Not only does he unleash a nasty stereotype against a brown woman, he freely admits he would never take communion from someone who’s not white. He alludes to the Great Replacement theory, the white supremacist conspiracy theory that Caucasians are being systematically outnumbered by people of color and therefore losing their power.
What’s bizarre is his acknowledgment that what he did was “bad.” He even says “sorry” as if he feels the need to apologize. It’s because he knows racism is a sin—Church doctrine condemns it—and yet he has no qualms about being racist.
It’s also strange that he says he’ll confess this to a priest because a confession only counts, according to Catholics, if you’re sincerely atoning for your sin. And Mike makes it perfectly clear he’s not going to stop being racist.
That misunderstanding of confession led to a community note on X/Twitter explaining that confessions don’t count if you have “no intention of avoiding [that sin] in the future.”
The reaction to that video have been intense to say the least. Besides just calling out the racism, people have pointed out other problems:
The whole idea of communion is to celebrate Jesus as one body, so what this guy is doing violates the entire spirit of the ritual.
Does he realize Jesus wasn’t white?
Why is he filming while driving?
Does this guy seriously think men wash their hands more often than women?!
And it’s not just random people online saying these things. Prominent Catholics have been doing the same, as have other Trump-supporting conservatives… which is ironic given how much racism emanates from the administration. (Not that Mike cares. Before the election, he claimed that JD Vance, who’s married to an Indian woman, “has some deep-seated issues.” He’s still not a fan of their interracial marriage.)
But none of this is new for Mike. He made a video back in August whining about how Catholic congregations were “getting too diverse.” (Ironically, Mike went viral last year for a post he made about burrito sizes at Chipotle… which is to say he loves Mexican food, but hates Mexican people.)
One thing articles about Mike have not pointed out, though, is where he goes to church.
I can answer that one for you because Mike loves to overshare. He said in a video last year that he attends Saint Elizabeth Roman Catholic Church in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. I asked the church for comment on their white supremacist member, and whether this sort of bigotry was acceptable to them, but they didn’t respond as of this writing.
Obviously, this guy is an anomaly among Catholics. The Church pushes a variety of awful views—it’s anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ rights, anti-trans, anti-birth control—but outright racism isn’t one of them.
But what’s striking about Mike’s video is that he seems to understand the difference between right and wrong. He just doesn’t care. Nothing about his religion taught him that he should choose the moral path. He’d much rather listen to Fuentes than any priest. And that’s the sort of power that plenty of preachers have noticed over the past few years. Nothing they say overrides the power and pull that MAGA has over their congregations.
Mike is proudly racist. Instead of just trolling people online, though, it’s playing out in church. That’s what feels so damning about it. It’s not that I think his church condones this bigotry, but clearly, they’re not openly condemning it loudly enough that people like Mike know they’re not welcome in those spaces. What good is a moral country club if it admits guys like these as members?
It’s not enough to condemn this and move on because far too many houses of worship openly embrace bigots like Mike. They need to call out hate at every turn, in every form, because until that happens, people like him are using churches to launder the hate they espouse everywhere else.
Organized religion is more about going by the rules than morality. This fool demonstrates the disconnect between religion and morality once again, as if we needed another example of it. One of the worst characteristics of racists is their tendency to be so proud of their bigotry.
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