Priest Opposes Roberts Nomination: "If (Roberts) is a practicing Catholic..."

Catholic Universe Bulletin | September 23, 2005 | Father Ben Jimenez

[hdstmf]

He needs the robes to hide behind. Giving them up would limit access to alter boys.

[pa mom]

You mean that tongue in cheek, right?

[Texan5]

A liberal, cafeteria Catholic who happens to be a priest...

[oldbrowser]

One might wonder if the good Father is a practicing Catholic.

If he is, he should be excommunicated for supporting abortionists.

[HapaxLegamenon]

One might wonder if the good Father is a practicing Catholic.

Good Question. The lack of any mention to abortion, gay marriage etc., makes one wonder.

[solitas]

Whoa! You can't call that assclown a jerk.

[HapaxLegamenon]

And note that this kook also complains about "the right to privacy" which is basically code words for "the right to kill children in the womb."

...and the "right" to sodomy.

[kcvl]

Fr. Ben Jimenez, SJ, Gary Ashbeck of Jonah House, Br. Mike O'Grady, SJ. Photo by Fr. Jack Dister, S.J.

Father Jimenez is a Jesuit priest and associate pastor at St. Augustine's parish in Tremont, who was arrested Sunday at the 14th annual protest of the School of the Americas (SOA) training camp on the army base at Fort Benning. A 1977 graduate of St. Ignatius High School, Father Jimenez has a history of being committed to the poor and being a human rights advocate. This year he chose to put his freedom on the line by protesting — along with approximately 10,000 individuals from different parts of our hemisphere — at this U.S Army-run training center that has been called the “School of Assassins,” “School of Dictators,” and “Nursery of Death Squads” by its critics.

As a Jesuit, Father Jimenez has held a particularly strong feeling about SOA since the 1989 incident in El Salvador in which six Jesuit priests and their families were slaughtered by soldiers who were trained at the School of the Americas. Since then, there has been a protest every year around Thanksgiving near the Fort Benning base. Father Jimenez has attended these rallies before, but this is the first time he has set foot on military property, which automatically results in arrest and the possibility of six months in jail.

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March 18, 2003 - 06:32 PM PST

War and violence (CLEVELAND, OHIO) – Peace supporters will gather at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument in Public Square from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. on the day after the Bush Administration begins escalating the war on Iraq.* Ten (10) individuals will risk arrest by respectfully and nonviolently transforming the monument into a Peace Monument. Along with praying for the victims of all wars, the demonstrators will drape the monument with banners and peace cranes while at the same time symbolically bandaging the depicted wounded soldiers. Father Ben Jimenez of St. Augustine’s Parish, of the Catholic Diocese of Ohio said “We will take this action to symbolize our desire to protect soldiers from harm and the necessity to avoid war that injures and kills soldiers and civilians alike.”

According to action organizers, the demonstration is an attempt to publicly and visibly raise voices in opposition to the invasion of Iraq and to insist that the United States of America end the war immediately.

In a joint press statement, Jimenez and five other prisoners of conscience wrote: "By training and equipping the armed forces of Latin America, the U.S. military is strengthening the hand of the privileged elites in their efforts to repress unions, farmers, students, and others struggling for justice. The most needed priority for Latin America is not further militarization. As Christians, we hope and struggle for a world of justice and peace."

[bjc]

If he actually stated that he was for abortion - you would be correct. Code words or not, he simply argued that there should be a right to privacy in the Constitution - or more precisely that because Judge Roberts does not find such a right in the Constitution, he should not be confirmed as Chief Justice of SCOTUS. This is a legitimate matter for debate. IMHO abortion can hardly be justified by such a right. Its use in Roe vs. Wade is a pure smoke-screen.

[pa mom]

Good bone structure. Too bad he's a whack-job.

[FlingWingFlyer]

"...that secured the presidency for him in 2000."

If this pinhead had any intelligence at all he would be aware of the fact that President Bush was re-elected in 2004. The 2000 election is irrelevent now. Lefty 'RATS. Ya gotta love 'em. Even if they are ignorant. Being a mouthpiece for the DNC just doesn't seem to fit my image of a priest.

[Coleus]

Shame on this liberal democrat

priest, Pro life is paramount in the RCC, I see this liberal democrat never mentions this.
A Voter's Guide: Pro-choice candidates and church teaching

 

President Bush Speaks to St. Augustine Parish in Cleveland, Ohio

Saint Augustine Church - Cleveland
2486 West 14th Saint, Cleveland, OH 44113-4498
Pastor - Rev. Joseph D.McNulty
Website:
Email: staugch@erielink.com
Phone: (216) 781-5530 Fax: (216) 781-1124

SOA Watch
School of the Americas Watch
Florida activist one of 18 sentenced in protests at Fort Benning
Clevelanders to risk arrest for truth :: Every Voice Network

[HapaxLegamenon]

But Roberts stated in the Hearings that he thought the the right to privacy was guaranteed in several places in the Constitution.

[Don_Ret_USAF]

STUCK ON STUPID.

[Prime Choice]

I wonder what this Priest's position was on John Kerry... HA!

[kcvl]

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WRL is committed not only to eliminating war, but the causes of war-causes intricately linked to the violence that pervades our society. We know that even where there seems to be "peace," the suffering of homelessness, hunger, lack of medical care, and poverty is as violent to those upon whom it is imposed as any war. We search for an answer to the violence in our society not in the building of more prisons, but in programs that bring help to those in need. The government centers its spending priorities on missiles and bombs despite the unmet needs of millions of desperate people. WRL works for peace within a framework of social justice.


Program
War Resisters League centers its work on education and action. Education involves publishing pacifist literature, including a magazine, The Nonviolent Activist, and the annual Peace Calendar. Our emphasis is on action, war resistance and individual conscience. WRL organizes demonstrations, cooperates in coalition with other peace and justice groups, opposes conscription and all forms of militarism including ROTC, and supports men and women who resist the military at all levels. Our staff helps train people in civil disobedience, war tax resistance, and other forms of putting conscience into action. We also co-sponsor the Fund for Education and Training (FEAT), which assists young men who for reasons of conscience do not comply with laws requiring registration for the draft.

WRL's Anti-Militarism Program focuses on the many devastating consequences of war and weaponry. Our youth program, ROOTS (Revolution Out of Truth and Struggle), focuses on counter-recruitment and the impact of militarism on targeted populations like youth of color and the poor. And our War Tax Resistance program supports those who refuse to pay for war.

A major part of WRL's program is to help people organize in their own communities where real change begins. WRL has a network of local groups and contacts around the country. The National Office sends out regular mailings to a "key list" of local organizers and has offered a training program for organizers. Other special materials include the Organizers Manual, the book War Tax Resistance, a terrific collection of buttons and posters, organizers' packets, and videos for parents and students on war toys and military recruiting.

War Resisters League has strong international ties through membership in War Resisters’ International (info@wri-irg.org) and affiliation to the International Peace Bureau (ipb@gn.apc.org). The League sends representatives to conferences and actions for peace and human rights in countries on every continent.


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STATE ORGANIZERS

Ohio
Ben Jimenez 216-781-5530 (o) bjmenez@jstb.gutlink.edu 216-281-2302 (h)


St Augustines Church, Parish House, (216) 781-5530, 2486 W 14th St, Cleveland, OH 44113




The Iraq Pledge of Resistance,
founded in September of 2002, is a nationwide network of activists and organizations committed to ending the war in Iraq through nonviolent, Gandhian and Kingian resistance.

MEDIA ADVISORY 3/19/05:
Amidst Pictures of 1500 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq,
U.S. Citizens Challenged Federal Law that Prohibits
Support of Soldier’s Right of Conscience

Defiance of Federal Law begins weekend of Nonviolence Resistance Actions

Washington, DC – On Thursday, March 17, a group of over 50 individuals including veterans, military family members, and nonviolent activists publicly read and signed a statement supporting soldiers who, of their own conscience, are refusing orders to fight in the Iraq War – and encouraging others to exercise their conscience in the same way. The declaration is in direct violation of United States Code 18, Section 2387, which makes support and encouragement of soldiers resisting their orders illegal, and which carries a maximum penalty of $10,000 or ten years in prison.


Clevland, Ohio - On March 19 starting at 2pm a group of nonviolent activists will go to the Armed Services Recruiting Center in Lakewood, Ohio . Those who are risking arrest will enter the station and stand in their picture windows with signs while others pass out counter-recruitment leaflets to anyone inside. Contact Ben Jimenez at 216 281 2302.

[Prime Choice]

Maybe he would prefer they were treated according to the methods of the Spanish Inquisition?

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!

...er...sorry...don't know what came over me.

Okay, officer...I'll go quietly.

[MarkBSenior]

It appears that the selection of Pope Benedict and his escalating of his predecessor's policies are proving to be extremely fortuitous.

Let's take the Church back. Almost as important, let's take the Jesuits back. They used to be the backbone of the Church, enforcing the doctrine.

Not rewriting it in the words of the Marxist enemies of the Church.