"Father, Do you know there is a "n*gg*r" in your church?"

[Mortimer]

Do you think in New York (19th century or when that was suppossed to be) a Catholic would say that about blacks in a church, or that is just invented part for the movie?

I dont think the Catholic Church was ever racist, didnt the Catholic Church always had non-white members since its birth? But maybe some catholics or individuals have been racist, that is not the same as that the teachings of the Catholic Church are racist, right?

[Smeagol]

Do you think in New York (19th century or when that was suppossed to be) a Catholic would say that about blacks in a church

Yes. The Irish in New York hated Negroes.

[Creoda]

Terrible movie.

It's well known that most of the Irish (Catholics) in New York were against Lincoln's 'nigger war'.

https://www.historyireland.com/fight...can-civil-war/