Catholic Cardinal Condemns Pastor's Anti-Clinton Remarks - Controversy Clouds Democratic Party Unity

As if it couldn't get anymore entertaining.......

1 posted on 05/30/2008 1:54:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

2 posted on 05/30/2008 1:56:13 PM PDT by Eurale

3 posted on 05/30/2008 1:57:13 PM PDT by TheWasteLand

Why does it seem Wright and Pfleger are trying real hard to sabotage OsAMA?! Hmmmmm inquiring minds want to know?!

4 posted on 05/30/2008 1:58:34 PM PDT by RoseofTexas

Nothing will happen to Mr. Pfleger, indeed, he will receive a hero’s welcome this Sunday at St. Sabina’s.

Cardinal George will not dare discipline this fraudulant man of the cloth. Cardinal George will pray that this latest tantrum by Mr. Pfleger blows over.

5 posted on 05/30/2008 1:59:18 PM PDT by right turn at the light

What’s Reverand Manning’s take on all this?

6 posted on 05/30/2008 2:06:10 PM PDT by Bushwacker777

Does this supposed church ever worship, oh, I don’t know....God, maybe?

Just endless screaming, ranting, racist, hate-filled political diatribes, met with hooting, stomping, cheers and applause from the hate-filled congregation. It’s not a church, it’s a damn front for communists and tax-payer subsidized sedition.

To even call this a church is blasphemy.

7 posted on 05/30/2008 2:11:44 PM PDT by Eroteme

To: Bushwacker777

Somebody’s been ridin’ dirty!

8 posted on 05/30/2008 2:12:31 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)

Condemns?

So what. How about defrocking this communist?

The Cardinal is gutless.

9 posted on 05/30/2008 2:14:07 PM PDT by Yankee

What a coward Cardinal George is. Pfleger shoud be defrocked.

10 posted on 05/30/2008 2:17:57 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod

Isn’t “Chaos” interesting?

11 posted on 05/30/2008 2:18:24 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)

At their level of narcisism, they honestly believe that they are helping him.

12 posted on 05/30/2008 2:21:20 PM PDT by stop_fascism

Meanwhile, as this racial Rev. Wright stuff goes on, we're not allowed to watch reruns of the Little Rascals or Amos & Andy because they're too RACIAL!

13 posted on 05/30/2008 2:25:27 PM PDT by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)

This looks like one friend of Obama’s I could get along with. People are so upset because it is so true, and they don’t want to hear it.

14 posted on 05/30/2008 2:29:11 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat

On the parish website:

http://a.saintsabina.org/

Wright and Obama:...
Saturday, 10 May 2008
WRIGHT AND OBAMA: TWO DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS TO A NEW AMERICA “...Senator Barack Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright, love America, are passionate about its future, and desire at their very core the best for this country and for each and every one...The truth is we need both!...”

This has been a sad week for me. I have watched two friends who I respect, admire, and have a deep love for, torn apart by pundits and editorialists, talking heads, and political strategists! It has been sad because both men that I know, Senator Barack Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright, love America, are passionate about its future, and desire at their very core the best for this country and for each and every one of its citizens. I must also say that I find it quite hypocritical that conservative preachers and commentators who have identified themselves as the protectors and respecters of life are consistently silent on the issues of gun violence, poverty, no health care, poor education, and the effects of racism and classism that are continually killing life in our inner cities. Yet when other voices identify them, they’re called angry and unpatriotic.

There has been a strong desire and demand to make people take a side, draw a line in the sand and make a choice between Wright and Obama. I personally believe this is evil and unfair. First of all, I don’t understand why Senator Obama and Reverend Wright are suddenly being held accountable and responsible for whatever the other says. This is not being done in either of the campaigns of Senator Clinton or Senator McCain. So the question must be asked, what’s the hidden strategy as to why this is being done to Senator Obama and Reverend Wright? Secondly, why are they seemingly being forced to not only be held accountable for each other, but to speak for and sound like each other? They are different persons, different personalities, and have different purposes. Finally, I understand, appreciate, and believe we need both!

Senator Obama has spent the past two years and years earlier in his political life presenting America a vision of hope. Hope as to who we can be, how we can be inclusive and different, how we can do politics differently, and how we can build a new and better America. This vision of hope has set a fire of enthusiasm, excitement, and involvement across this country.

Reverend Wright, as a gifted preacher in the prophetic tradition, has spent his ministry identifying the sins, problems, and stumbling blocks of racism, sexism, classism, poverty, inequality, and the down right lies that must be acknowledged and eradicated if we are to build a new and better America. He has given hope to masses of people who have come to feel invisible in America.

The truth is we need both!

We need a voice of hope that points us to a vision and we need a prophetic voice that makes us uncomfortable and forces us to acknowledge our sins. Senator Barack Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright are, I believe, seeking the same thing, what the scriptures may call “a new heaven and a new earth.” Why are we trying to force them to drive down the same street in order to get there, rather than being more preoccupied with arriving to the place of new beginnings, and grateful to all the different voices that take us there? The true audacity of hope comes when it seems everything looks hopeless. Both Senator Barack Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright are calling us to hope – but from their different vantage points.

I challenge us all not to get caught up in the trick to choose one or the other. Rather, let us be committed to the new day and the new beginning for America. And let us be appreciative and thankful for all the different and necessary voices who call us to get there! The truth is we need Senator Barack Obama and we need Reverend Jeremiah Wright and, if we are serious about wanting a new America, we cannot afford to throw either one of them under the bus!

Rev. Michael L. Pfleger, Pastor the Faith Community of Saint Sabina

This letter also appears in the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday, May 4, 2008.

15 posted on 05/30/2008 2:31:55 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)

Senator Barack Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright, love America

Somehow I think somehow who preaches a sermon saying "God d*** America" a few days after 9/11 is not someone who loves America.

16 posted on 05/30/2008 2:46:13 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam

Dear Rev. Pfluger,
I don’t want a “new america” I just want the old America back again.

17 posted on 05/30/2008 2:46:18 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)

To: BlessedBeGod

Pfleger shoud be defrocked.

The problem with that is that he would immediately set up his own schismatic church. (I'm not saying that it's not the right thing to do, just pointing out the inevitable consequences.)

18 posted on 05/30/2008 2:52:05 PM PDT by Campion

Yeah. The Little Rascals, black and white kids who played together as equals, starting in the 1920’s. Not only that, but the series had relatively few racial gags. One of the funniest was when Stymie was sitting on a hot stove. He wiped his brow and flung the sweat on the wall. It looked like chocolate syrup!

19 posted on 05/30/2008 2:56:49 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan

Politically, it’s hilarious.

But the vile, hateful, corrupt Pfleger, and the gutless Cardinal George, who takes orders from Pfleger—make me sad for my Church.

20 posted on 05/30/2008 3:04:22 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan

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