Reading the Washington Post OP/ED by the former parishioner I had no issues with her intelligent curiosity. She discovered something that needed to be discoveted. Old bones and fully formed skeletons have s way of being discovered.
What needs to be discussed and truly dialogued here is the Roman Catholic priest /poet John Bannister Tabb. He and Sidney Lanier-also a poet and also attached to the Roman Catholic faith both  fought for the Confederacy and both were POWs.
Some of their writings were used in the time when Roman Catholic educational institutions used "catholiized" text books that inserted Roman Catholic writings. My  father's Jebbie high school used them and I read them many times.
Both poet's works were included but it isn't until now that I realized the problematic nature of their writings and their inclusion of their work.
So it is not just the institutions - art has to work through racism.
Not easy but Ezra Pound despite his talent became a patsy for Mussolini. It happens