This altar call is not much different from Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" or D.W. Griffith's " Birth of a Nation," which both portrayed white men as the saviors of civilization.

BUFFALO — Haleigh Smith, 12, of Napoli, was selected from St. Patrick’s parish in Randolph and recently honored at the 47th annual Catholic Bishops Altar Server awards mass and banquet. Smith was ...