Is Rev. Pfleger Blackmailing the Catholic Church On Racial Issues?

Pinochet

[pinochet]

The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago announced that Rev. Pfleger will be reinstated as the pastor of St. Sabina on June 16, after his removal following inflammatory comments about Hillary Clinton.

Pfleger seems to be operating an independent cult within the Catholic Church, and he has so much power, that no Bishop or Cardinal dares to touch him. In 2002, Cardinal Francis George wanted to tranfer him out of St. Sabina, but he told the Cardinal to take a hike. He even dared the Catholic Chruch to fire him, and, astonishingly, the Archdiocese backed down: http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/05/pfleger_to_arch.html

There is no other priest in America who openly defies his Bishops so often, yet manages to get away with it.

Here is my theory on why he gets away with it. In the eyes of most Americans, the Catholic Church is not viewed as a racist church. This helps the church to have a higher moral authority than others among the media and politicians. White ethnic Catholics are often portrayed in our culture as past victims of American Protestant prejudice, just like Jews and Blacks.

In contrast, the Southern Baptists and Mormons are seen as white Churches (despite the fact that they have done successful mission work in the 3rd world). Those churches are so used to being unfairly labelled as 'racist', that such labelling does not worry them as much. But the Catholic Church is keen to maintain its image as the universal church, and they believe that having Pfleger on board is the price they have to pay to maintain their public image. That is also why they also promote the cause of illegal immigrants and Muslims.

The Church seems to believe that, if they kick out Pfleger, he could damage the Church's image on racial issues. Chicago is, after all, a largely black city that is the home of Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright, all of them close friends of Pfleger.

As you will see in the link I provided, Rev. Wright wrote to Cardinal George in 2002, and demanded that the Archdiocese keep Pfleger in St. Sabina. It was a case of a liberal Protestant church interfering in the internal decision-making process of the Catholic Church.

[pinochet]

As a Catholic, I feel that the Church should deal firmly with Pfleger, even if it costs the church it's well-crafted "non-racist" image (at least in America). They should also demand that American laws should be respected, by coming out against illegal immigration. The Church should stop the pretence that white Catholics are better than other white Christians.

In 1968, Clarence Thomas was training to be a priest in a Catholic seminary in Missouri. When Martin Luther King was shot, one of his white fellow seminary colleagues said, "Good, I hope the SOB dies." The fact that a future priest of the Church would make such a statement, made Thomas end his seminary studies and he quit the Catholic Church: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas

Yes, there is need for the church to do more to promote racial healing. But the church cannot compromise on its core teachings, by keeping a pro-abortion cult leader like Pfleger as one of their most high profile pastors. And they cannot call for the breaking of American laws by supporting illegal immmigrants, an action that endangers the security of American citizens. Racial healing will also not be achieved by pandering to demagogues like Jesse Jackson, Farrakhan, and Rev. Wright.

The Church should send Pfleger packing, and deal with the real issues behind America's racial tensions. The Church can do more to advance race relations by doing the right thing, than by pandering to race-baiters.

[Prole]

Pfleger should be arrested and charged with the following:

1.) Disturbing the peace

2.) Public Endangerment

3.) Inciting a Riot

Pfleger also encouraged folks to kill a Chicago gun store owner as well.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1842415/posts

He belongs in a federal prison where he can learn the true meaning of anger.

[A.A. Cunningham]

and he quit the Catholic Church

Temporarily.

How to create a link.

[Kakaze]

There is no other priest in America who openly defies his Bishops so often, yet manages to get away with it.

The church as a whole has the power to remove Pfelger. That the church hasn't, makes it complicit.

It has nothing to do with catholicism. The church routinely allows priest to flaunt the law and be politically active in he United States.

Whether its Pfelger leading his own cult in Chicago or priest on the west coast running their own version of the under ground railroad for illegal immigrants, the church doesn't turn a blind eye, they enable the behavior, their inaction only shows they actually sanction it.