My response doesn’t quite directly answer the question because I am writing about my church community, Our Lady of the Assumption Church which is the most divers e parish in the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte. In this case the people are united by a love of Jesus, a devotion to the parish community and a devotion to the sacrament of Eucharist. The Parish is on the East Side and the diversity of the community reflects the diversity of the neighborhood. The most diverse mass is the 11:00AM Sunday mass- it is like the United Nations of Central and South America, and the United Nations of Africa, with representatives from both French and English Africa. When I am at mass and think of racial diversity it is as if we have totally arrived, and I have to remind myself that this is not the case for the larger world. It is a demonstration of what is possible. I often wonder why this happened. I think the community is a place where displaced persons feel comfortable whether they are from Pittsburgh or Accra or Douala or Tegucigalpa.