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Chicago Parish Cuts Up, Burns Rainbow Flag
Church Militant ^ | 9/15/18

Posted on 09/15/2018 3:10:53 PM PDT by marshmallow

LGBT flag once hung over sanctuary of gay parish, displayed at Cdl. Bernardin's Mass

Parishioners of Resurrection Parish in Chicago, Illinois, held a rainbow flag-burning event last week, cutting up and setting on fire an LGBT flag that once hung in the sanctuary at the parish's first Mass. The event was originally scheduled for Sept. 29, the Feast of St. Michael and the Archangels, but the Chicago archdiocese — heeding complaints by gay activists — called the pastor, Fr. Paul John Kalchik, and ordered him not to hold the event. A handful of parishioners took things into their own hands and decided they would burn the flag themselves.

Kalchik is a victim of homosexual rape and abuse, once at the age of 11 and again at age 19. He has been pastor of Resurrection Parish for 11 years. He issued a heartfelt plea to Pope Francis in an open letter calling for an end to clerical cover-up. His strongly worded articles and homilies calling for reform in the Church, in particular denouncing the homosexual predation of clerics, has drawn down the ire of Cdl. Blase Cupich and the Chicago archdiocese, who have threatened to remove his priestly faculties and derail his priestly career.

Here, one parishioner explains the significance of the rainbow flag burned at the parish, which used to hang in the sanctuary, including at the 1991 inaugural Mass presided over by Cdl. Joseph Bernardin.

The Burning of the Banner

It is important to understand why the rainbow cross banner that hung in Resurrection Church when it was formed in 1991 has been burned. This was no regular rainbow flag, but a banner merging the Cross with the rainbow. It was not innocent. It was a signal that this parish would be the new "gay" parish, as Fr. Daniel.....

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: burns; catholic; chicago; flag; gay; lgbt; paedophiles; parish; popefrancis; rainbow; seethelight
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1 posted on 09/15/2018 3:10:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
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Parishioners need to drive these pedohile enabling “holy men” into the streets and strip them naked. Then absolutely refuse to attend any service they preside over.

That’s what it’s going to take.

L


2 posted on 09/15/2018 3:13:23 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: marshmallow

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3 posted on 09/15/2018 3:14:34 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (My Rights,,,Your Rants!)
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Now we are getting somewhere.

I’ll stipulate that I love to witness double rainbows in the wild.


4 posted on 09/15/2018 3:16:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: marshmallow

It’s good to see the pendulum swinging the right way again.


5 posted on 09/15/2018 3:21:40 PM PDT by Boomer
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To: Lurker

Our parish tried the gay mass once a year for 2 years. The faggots ruined and made a mockery of it every time. Obviously, the idiot parish priests got an earful from the parishioners and stopped it. Never had it again.


6 posted on 09/15/2018 3:21:49 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: marshmallow

Pope Francis tells us that those who expose these sins of the church are motivated by the Devil. Sins should remain concealed, according to his doctrine.


7 posted on 09/15/2018 3:29:45 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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“Pope Francis tells us that those who expose these sins of the church are motivated by the Devil....”

When this Pope speaks, it is Satan speaking.

He might be Catholic, but he surely is not Christian.


8 posted on 09/15/2018 3:46:06 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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To: marshmallow

Maybe they should have burned the pedophile priests as well? Rid the church of the evil.


9 posted on 09/15/2018 3:54:14 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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My family was “touched” by the Catholic Church 30 years ago. It’s about time our pleas have been heard. It was always swept under the rug.
God has finally heard my prayers. I left the church then and tried to convince friends that it was an evil place for children. Back in the 70’s being gay was not accepted. If a man was gay then he became a priest and went where the men and boys were. I am bitter and I pray to G-d that those whom have abused children will be punished in my lifetime and by G-d.


10 posted on 09/15/2018 3:56:22 PM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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Parishioners need to drive these pedohile enabling “holy men” into the streets and strip them naked.

They'd enjoy it.

11 posted on 09/15/2018 4:21:16 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: marshmallow

Brilliant. Burning the rainbow flag. I don’t know why I never thought of that.

Thanks for sharing.


12 posted on 09/15/2018 4:28:26 PM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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To: marshmallow

Brilliant. Burning the rainbow flag. I don’t know why I never thought of that.

Thanks for sharing.


13 posted on 09/15/2018 4:28:26 PM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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This could be new activism on twitter, defiling and destroying icons of leftism; black power flags, antifa outfits, pu$$y hats and vajayjay shirts, planned parenthood banners, network “news” logos and nfl emblems.


14 posted on 09/15/2018 4:59:30 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: lucky american

Awful things happening in Gods House,
Just Hideous.


15 posted on 09/15/2018 5:42:41 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (My Rights,,,Your Rants!)
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To: Reno89519

Kinky,,,


16 posted on 09/15/2018 5:45:22 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (My Rights,,,Your Rants!)
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To: marshmallow

The satanic, idiotic church hierarchy-gay mafia will probably demand that it be replaced with a larger one.


17 posted on 09/15/2018 6:18:51 PM PDT by bkopto
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A pedophile needs to serve his prison term, and thereafter keep himself away from kids and porn in a controlled environment.

A taste for inflicting torture-death is a perversion in itself. You sure don't rid the church of evil by committing evil.

Not that he doesn't deserve death. Without the saving power of Christ, every one of us deserves death. But only those who show no mercy face judgment without mercy.

18 posted on 09/15/2018 6:19:17 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ( "Judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful." - James 2:13)
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ADL would definitely label these as hate speech.

Would have to wear the badge of being banned with pride.

Might make a good t-shirt: “Banned by Twitter.”


19 posted on 09/15/2018 6:22:21 PM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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To: lucky american; marshmallow
I am angered and revulsed at the very thought of a child being sexually molested. But it is unjust to say "the church is an evil place for children."

I am 66 years old and have dealt with Catholic people, parishioners, schoolchildren, nuns and priests all my life, and never met one person who was molested. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm saying it is not a characteristic of the church at large.

After the AG Shapiro released the Grand Jury report on the Catholic Dioceses of Pennsylvania, I looked up the public list of those who had "credibly allegations" against them, and there were just two from the county where I grew up in over a period of 70 years, and neither of them was a pedo.

Of course "two" is two damn many, but I am in a position to say there were many more both in the Boy Scouts and in the Public Schools.

To slime the whole church with such talk --- talk which damages innocent priests and people --- is wrongful and unjust.

20 posted on 09/15/2018 6:30:30 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ( "Judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful." - James 2:13)
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