A short thread on a topical subject 🧵 There is, and ought to be, a stigma around miscegenation—which, in a Christian context, is narrowed to interracial marriage. In his 1939 encyclical on the Unity of Human Society, Pope Pius XII taught that it is “legitimate” to treat the
While it is true that no individual man has a duty to procreate, and even less so to marry within his own race, it does not follow that the same is true at the collective level, when looking at all the members of a given race. After noting that all races have a right to exist,
How sorely this truth is needed. For all races but one, the European race, enjoy a healthy racial consciousness, cultivated and promoted by society at large. This becomes all the more important when considering the perilous position of White people within Western countries.
Should the normative and natural desire to marry within our own race be reversed—which seems to be increasingly under attack by those who present interracial marriage as a virtue, and scorn people concerned with racial preservation—both the vigor and number of the great European
Finally, since I have already completed another short essay on the moral considerations and problems of interracial marriage (see below), I will present the relevant quotations, without any commentary. These are very useful when people, especially fellow Catholics, impute
“Just as a member of the true Church is earnestly dissuaded from marriage, by dispensation, with a non-member, so should a member of one race be dissuaded from marriage with a person of another color.”
“…the Church by no means forbids the preservation of purity of blood and racial characteristics, even if this involves sacrifices on the part of individuals, whether it be by promoting health and vitality, by restraining feeble elements, or by preventing the penetration of alien
“…there are grave reasons against any general practice of intermarriage between the members of different racial groups. These reasons, where clearly verified, amount to a moral prohibition of such a practice. These arise from the great difference of condition which is usually
“Saint Alphonsus thought that the nobleman who married a peasant sinned because of the antagonisms which he occasioned by his action. If those marriages were regarded as illicit and sinful, it would seem that, a fortiori, theologians would hold that marriage between blacks and
“For each race has the right to peaceful expansion, by multiplying itself through procreation, by promoting the purity of its blood and its physical vigour, and by cultivating its psychic potentialities, in all of which the civil authorities should cooperate. Whence the members
“Interracial marriage is not common sense. It is not a sin, it is not an offense against God, necessarily, but it may often be an offense against common sense. Because there is too much difference between people of different races for the marriage probably to last.”








