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Posted on 10/04/2013 1:53:57 PM PDT by nanetteclaret
Our government is out of control.
First, it was the World War II veterans who had to break down barriers to see the open air, un-attended memorial erected in their honor.
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But now there’s a story just coming to light that takes things even further. According the Archdiocese for Military Services, GS and contract priests (who are paid by the federal government as independent contractors in places where there aren’t enough active-duty priests to meet the needs of Catholics in military service) are being forbidden from celebrating Mass, even on a volunteer basis.
If they violate this restriction, they face possible arrest. FOR CELEBRATING MASS.
From John Schlageter, General Counsel for the Archdiocese:
There is a chronic shortage of active duty Catholic chaplains. While roughly 25% of the military is Catholic, Catholic priests make up only about 8% of the chaplain corps. That means approximately 275,000 men and women in uniform, and their families, are served by only 234 active-duty priests. The temporary solution to this shortage is to provide GS and contract priests. These men are employed by the government to ensure that a priest is available when an active duty Catholic Chaplain is not present. With the government shutdown, GS and contract priests who minister to Catholics on military bases worldwide are not permitted to work – not even to volunteer. During the shutdown, it is illegal for them to minister on base and they risk being arrested if they attempt to do so.
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Until the Federal Government resumes normal operations, or an exemption is granted to contract or GS priests, Catholic services are indefinitely suspended at those worldwide installations served by contract and GS priests.
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This shutdown impacts Catholics in the military worldwide. In the DC-metro area, it specifically impacts bases like Quantico.
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(Excerpt) Read more at catholicvote.org ...
Good job, Democrats, for voting in this Marxist regime.
The answer is obvious: celebrate mass and get arrested. We need that kind of imagery to put in front of the LIVs to show them what their messiah really is!
Backlash will spill all over the RATs in 2014. I’m amazed they’re too arrogant and stupid to know it yet.
United Socialist States of America (USSA) - I just want to thank all the entitlement junkies, union members, democrats, and all the others would thought it best to stay at home and not vote at all because they didn’t like Romney.
We are are being proper screwed — hope you guys have a great weekend...Tantrum Boy indeed....
I promise I did a search and it didn’t show up! I’ll get the mod to delete this one.
Thanks for posting this info.
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