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"Fr. Norm" - 80-Year-Old Priest Arrsted, Jailed at Notre Dame
YouTube ^ | May 16, 2009 | Pass the Salt

Posted on 05/16/2009 6:57:23 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o

Here is the video of Fr. Norm Weslin's arrest by University of Notre Dame police. He was carrying a cross and singing a hymn in honor of the mother of Jesus Christ ---"Our Lady" -- "Notre Dame."

What evil deed did they think he was going to do if they didn't arrest him: launch a devastatng, full-scale Rosary barrage?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: abortion; catholic; frjenkins; moralabsolutes; notredame; notredamescandal; obama; obortion; prolife; protest; scandal
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To: puroresu

I wonder if Obama will have them cover up any signs of Jesus in the background.

I think any Catholic or Evangelical University will think long and hard before Obama’s invited to speak at their universities in the future.


61 posted on 05/16/2009 7:40:51 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I believe we are seeing modern-day heroes being used by God to bring down the powerful and corrupt. Fr. Norm and Carrie Prejean are two examples. I would also add Vice Pres. Cheney to the list. He is speaking out. Standing alone to speak the truth. These people are being mocked, arrested and called names. The result is that the MSM will have no choice but to pay attention and report. Even as they try to defend obama, they will show their true colors as they try to justify their defense of obama and all his liberal supporters.

God bless these brave souls. God is using them to reveal their corruption to all who refuse to see.


62 posted on 05/16/2009 7:41:14 AM PDT by sneakers ( NO AMERICAN BOWS TO ROYALTY - From president to ditch digger - NO AMERICAN BOWS! "Jim")
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To: Mrs. Don-o
A Catholic priest gets his hands bound, gets packed into whatever that thing is, then is unceremoniously carried off to jail - for praying and carrying a cross at a “Catholic” university that has Mary as its namesake.

Un-freakin-real.

Father Jenkins is beneath contempt. He and Notre Dame should be held accountable for this.

63 posted on 05/16/2009 7:42:38 AM PDT by AAABEST (And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; verga
Brought tears to my eyes.

Barack OBORTION must be stopped.

64 posted on 05/16/2009 7:43:01 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED. Barack OBORTION is a close second.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
"80-Year-Old Priest Arrested, Jailed at Notre Dame"

"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for twenty years

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"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

["(Jose) Diaz-Balart is the son of Rafael Diaz-Balart y Guitierrez (a former Cuban politician). He has three bothers, Rafael Diaz-Balart (a banker), Mario Diaz-Balart (a US Congressman) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (also a US Congressman). His aunt, Mirta Diaz-Balart, was Fidel Castro's first wife."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Diaz-Balart]

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

65 posted on 05/16/2009 7:43:24 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: uncitizen

I suggest this be copied on some hard drives. I wish I know how to do that. It’s gonna disappear, you know.


66 posted on 05/16/2009 7:43:34 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

What strikes me as uncanny, is that in 1966 Notre Dame it was the birthplace for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, which went world wide. Wonder where THIS event today will lead and what it will unravel...


67 posted on 05/16/2009 7:43:58 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: divine_moment_of_facts
All faiths (except one maybe) are outraged by this!

It's infuriating, scary and pathetic all at the same time.

68 posted on 05/16/2009 7:44:35 AM PDT by Allegra ( Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.)
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To: Steely Tom

It starts on it’s own. I don’t understand that the counter isn’t moving either.

This poor priest and all the others too.

spending time in the Eucharistic Adoration Chapel this afternoon for him.


69 posted on 05/16/2009 7:45:48 AM PDT by RebelTXRose (RESTORE THE REPUBLIC!!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

What strikes me as uncanny, is that in 1966 Notre Dame it was the birthplace for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, which went world wide. Wonder where THIS event today will lead and what it will unravel...


70 posted on 05/16/2009 7:46:09 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Mrs. Don-o
My heart breaks for the poor man. At 80 years old and in frail health, there was no reason for them to cuff him behind his back.

God be with those who are trying to protect the lives of the unborn.

71 posted on 05/16/2009 7:49:48 AM PDT by ninergold3 ("Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?" -Mark Lowry)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’m not Catholic but to see the reaction to this baby killer coming to speak to ND has been extremely heart warming. I am with you on this one. I wish I lived closer. I’d be there protesting this wicked one.


72 posted on 05/16/2009 7:51:26 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Looking at the body language of the arresting officers. I suspect everyone of them would have rather been getting root canal then do what they did.

I suspect more than one of them went home and wept and what they were ordered to do.

It would have been more courageous to refuse to follow their orders than do what they did.

73 posted on 05/16/2009 7:52:02 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: nufsed

> Handcuffing in the front is not safer for the police transporting an arrestee. Some departments require cuffing in the back.

In New Zealand it is optional for the police to use handcuffs/restraints when arresting or transporting someone. Plenty of times they are not used at all. The decision is made based on likely risk presented by the person being detained. Handcuffing is, after all, a use of force.

I think that is an utterly commonsense approach. There was neither reason nor excuse to restrain this priest. It was a shameful misuse of force.


74 posted on 05/16/2009 7:52:59 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
First they came for the Pro-Life Catholics and I did not speak out because I was not a Pro-Life Catholic.
Then they came for the Home-Schoolers and I did not speak out because I was not a Home-Schooler.
Then they came for the Gun Owners and I did not speak out because I was not a Gun Owner.
They kept coming for each of many of my neighbors one at a time and I said nothing.
I worried each time that they would come for me , but they did not.
Finally there came a time when they stopped coming and I and the few neighbors who were also spared gathered to discuss how we were so lucky not to have been taken away.
And we rejoiced that we had been spared until one neighbor pointed out: “They have no need to come for those who are obedient slaves.” And so I say: Choose this day how you will serve; Will you serve unwillingly and at the biding of others while wearing the yoke of socialism or will hold true to the course of our forefathers"; standing tall and serving freely? As for me I choose to SERVE MY GOD AND THE REPUBLIC!!
75 posted on 05/16/2009 7:53:28 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: thefrankbaum

What is the difference?


76 posted on 05/16/2009 7:55:15 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: DieHard the Hunter
I agree with your last sentence. I think we have scared a lot of cops into blindly doing the same thing in every situation. We are a very litigious society.

I remember when cops were admired for using discretion and having judgement, now they are sued for it. This is part of our zero tolerance policies. The person of authority doesn't think, they just respond like robots. The goal of the action is not to do the right thing, it's to not be sued.

I liked the way Alan Keyes addressed them the other day, saying they should follow their consciences.

77 posted on 05/16/2009 7:56:36 AM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, school and passport records.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I read yesterday that those arrested will be held in jail over the weekend. I assume that is to ensure they won’t participate in protest activities against the Fuehrer over the weekend.


78 posted on 05/16/2009 7:57:09 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: keats5; surferboy; Tony Snow
I noticed an old FReeper during the coverage. Griff Jenkins was known by the Snowflakes as surfer boy. He was the producer of Tony Snows Radio Show prior to Tony getting the WH Press Sec job.

Tony if you are watching from Heaven keep us all in your prayers. We are heading into a dark time.

79 posted on 05/16/2009 7:57:39 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

What illegal act did he commit?


80 posted on 05/16/2009 7:58:01 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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