What's a peacenik to do when son joins Army?

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | December 24, 2004 | CATHLEEN FALSANI RELIGION WRITER

[trisham]

"I told him, I cannot feel good about it because he's my son

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I would have had more respect for him if it weren't for that statement. The last thing his son needs as he goes off to war is to have this on his mind.

Someone posted that the son is more mature than the father. I have to agree with that.

[libs_kma]

"Yeah, no kidding! I, too, wonder how a catholic priest has kids!?!"

Was wondering the same myself...

[Dutch Boy]

If I remember correctly, there is a way for a previously married guy becoming a priest. I don't remember the exact details but there was a deacon in a church on Fort Leonardwood doing just that. It might have had to do with being a widow.

[rocksblues]

And I support him 100 percent in his decision.

I don't believe him.

Me neither. Wait till this young man gets his orders to report for duty in Iraq, what will you say then "Hippie Priest"?

[BlessedBeGod]

Sounds like he adopted. Is that forbidden?

Yep, but he did it anyway, and the cardinal didn't try to stop him. {{{sigh}}}

[JimRed]

What to do? Oh, maybe WHINE TO THE MEDIA?

[Tax-chick]

Widowed men (with children) can become priests. So, in special cases, can married men who have previously been Protestant pastors or priests. (Married men are also regularly ordained, rather than exceptions, in the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches.)

Of course, if people had only read the article, they would have known that the boys were adopted.

[ken5050]

My initial reaction was to say 'PRAY"..but considering the source.maybe that's NOT such a good idea..

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Ain't CLARITY great..?????????


Time, perhaps, for the Father to finally LISTEN to his Son...

...before he loses him...

...one way or the other..????


For...


MEL's -PASSION- was sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-

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Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965, Landing Zone Falcon

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[thoughtomator]

Easy question to answer: stop hoping our troops get killed.

[Bush Revolution]

Ditto...

[TalBlack]

What's a peacenik to do when son joins Army?

Praise the Lord and pass the ammo.

[papertyger]

... it's very hard for any parent to have a child reject your strongly-held convictions.

I'm sure Father Mike realizes his own politics are a luxury paid for by men like his son.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I was not aware of that. Is having foster children also forbidden or just adopting? Because I know of a few nuns that have taken in foster children and have never heard anyone say anything about it. Or it is just priests that have that restriction?

[G.Mason]

"Lamar Pfleger is strapping, soft-spoken and African American, the opposite in many ways of his father, the blond, blue-eyed firebrand."

Obviously Lamar's black, patriotic parental genes have overridden his blond, blue-eyed firebrand daddy's upbringing.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Um.....if I were a Reverend I'd give a low whistle and think to myself "Damn....God does work in mysterious ways."

[July 4th]

Priests adopt, but I don't think they're supposed to. I also think that a Catholic priest can legitimately be married and have children if he was an Anglican priest with family, and decided to become Catholic.

[Travis McGee]

Pacifists are parasites who depend on brave men to protect them.


These moral cowards curse their nation's troops, but without them, they would have been enslaved or exterminated long ago.

Blind self-righteous parasites.

[El Gran Salseron]

May I steal your tagline?

[El Gran Salseron]

Or maybe "borrow" is a better word.