(Part one of three)  In the article by Orlandar Brand-Williams and Mark Hicks

Detroit Archbishop Vigneron has said leaders “needed to go back and look at the fundamental mission and in light of that, what do we have to change.”  The first thing to change is to remove the fear of thinking and its corollary, fear of reading.

Stephanie Quesnelle, 26, of old Royal Oak, attends St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church in Detroit’s Poletown neighborhood.  And not where she is supposed to attend.  Nationality parishes were abolished years ago.  Accepting what the Teaching Magisterium has to say about which parish to belong is another starting point.  Apparently both Quesnelle and Weldeab are thinking for themselves about which parish to attend, despite Canon Law.

Other local Catholics like Heywan Weldeab of Canton Township also found the event helpful. A lifetime member of St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Detroit . . .