text: The writer asks if "Black and Brown" have been "silenced" in our churches.
  
  Many of the priests in my diocese are Latino or from Africa.     As for parishioners being "silenced," I have no idea what that means, given that I'm not aware of any laity of any color who is given a soapbox at Catholic churches.
  
  Here's an idea, writer:  Go interview non-Catholic minorities and ask them to tell you why they aren't Catholic.   An effort toward genuine journalism, iow.