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Priest: Obama Admin. Denied Mass to Catholics (church doors locked)
http://blogs.cbn.com ^ | October 8, 2013 | David Brody

Posted on 10/09/2013 6:24:04 AM PDT by Whenifhow

How about trying this one on for size? Here is the press release headline from Congressman Tim Huelskamp’s office this afternoon:

Obama Administration Denies Mass to Catholics

Apparently, a priest was denied access to a military chapel this weekend. Father Ray Leonard serves at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia but because of the government shutdown, he wasn’t allowed to go to celebrate Mass this past weekend.

He is contracted by the Defense Department to meet the spiritual needs of Catholics, but not now. The chapel doors were locked and the sign said, “Shutdown: No Catholic service till further notice.”

Father Leonard said the following:

“This is our church, Catholics have an expectation and obligation to attend Mass and we were told, ‘No you can’t go to church this week…“ My parishioners were upset. They were angry and dismayed. They couldn’t believe that in America they’d be denied access to Mass by the government.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: catholic; catholictroops; firstamendment; religion; shutdown; tyranny
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Rep. Tim Huelskamp had this reaction:

“Time and time again this Administration demonstrates it is waging a war against the very religious freedoms upon which America was founded. This is exactly why we worked to pass legislation (House Concurrent Resolution 58) this past weekend – to protect the religious liberties of all those who bravely serve in our Armed Forces.”

1 posted on 10/09/2013 6:24:04 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

Partly payback for calling for Pelosi to be denied communion?


2 posted on 10/09/2013 6:25:48 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Whenifhow

The priest doesn’t need a church to say Mass and should have set up and said Mass in the parking lot. I’m waiting to hear whether any of the Catholic clergy really pushed back on this. I want someone arrested.


3 posted on 10/09/2013 6:26:10 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Whenifhow

Did they take away all muslim prayer rugs too? or is that still allowed?

Is there mosques in the military?


4 posted on 10/09/2013 6:28:22 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Mercat

But muzzies having “services” in their “houses of worship” is oky doky, right?


5 posted on 10/09/2013 6:29:12 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (LIV's are products of an incomplete education.)
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To: Whenifhow

Wait a minute... I thought they said we have SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.

Since WHEN does the government OWN religion and can lock the doors of a church???

If this doesn’t DEFINE Tyranny and the phrase “Anti-American”, I don’t know what does.


6 posted on 10/09/2013 6:30:20 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Whenifhow

What did they expect from the Anti-Christ?


7 posted on 10/09/2013 6:30:32 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Mercat
The priest doesn’t need a church to say Mass and should have set up and said Mass in the parking lot.
Amen. Thirteen months in 'Nam and the two times I went to Mass was out in the boondocks.
8 posted on 10/09/2013 6:35:02 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Whenifhow

Wanna bet he voted for 0bama like so many Catholics who think that the government should take money from the productive and give it to the indolent.


9 posted on 10/09/2013 6:35:44 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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10 posted on 10/09/2013 6:36:40 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Mercat

Push back yes. But the priest can say mass only in consecrated space.

Communion he can give out but if its locked inside the building there’s not much he can do short of breaking in.


11 posted on 10/09/2013 6:39:51 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Whenifhow

Further proof, if you need it, that Obama is NOT a Christian.


12 posted on 10/09/2013 6:40:12 AM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: Mercat

Actually he needed access to the Tabernacle to expose the Eucharist.


13 posted on 10/09/2013 6:40:30 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Whenifhow

All these shutdowns effect masses of “whitey”. When will someone notice.


14 posted on 10/09/2013 6:42:11 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Whenifhow

When Catholic priests stop saying Mass because the government said so, not only is it a problem for the government but also for this Catholic priest who simply wimped out. Hold Mass ANYWHERE just like it used to happen in Communist or Nazi countries.


15 posted on 10/09/2013 6:42:53 AM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: Mercat

Exactly!!!


16 posted on 10/09/2013 6:43:18 AM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: Whenifhow

“Chicken Shit, President.” That explains each and every one of these instances....Don’t tell me this guy was oblivious to what was going on at the IRS, NSA, Benghazi etc.


17 posted on 10/09/2013 6:43:42 AM PDT by nikos1121 (“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet)
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To: stanne

And then he should have broke in.


18 posted on 10/09/2013 6:43:56 AM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: stanne

The military priests I knew had field cases with hosts in them and everything else they needed to say Mass


19 posted on 10/09/2013 6:48:46 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: stanne

wrong about the consecrated space


20 posted on 10/09/2013 6:49:30 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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