We'll see who receives the honors in heaven.
Ping to this sad news.
May millions of Americans find the kind of moral courage demonstrated by this decent, honorable man.
Memory Eternal, Father.
A great man. May he rest in peace.
Here is the original Youtube video of his arrest at Notre Dame, by Pass the Salt. It is one of the most beautiful and inspiring films I have ever seen, as wonderfully crafted as it was heroically done by Fr. Weslin.
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiz4tfjSuPc
May the choirs of angels welcome him home.
Fr. Weslin’s singing “Ave Maria” while being manhandled at ND stands out as one of the most profound videos I ever saw.
Requiem Aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetuae luceat eis.
Requiescant in pace.
Amen.
Father Norman Weslin is a missionary priest of the Oblates of Wisdom. He was ordained in 1986 by Juan Fremiot Torres, his incardinating Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico. His superior is Monsignor John F. McCarthy, who served on the Roman Curia at the Vatican in Rome.
Prior to ordination, Norman Weslin served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and retired after twenty years of active military service. He was a paratrooper, commander and chief of a war plans division on the General Staff. He was the Operations Officer responsible for the Army nuclear-tipped missile defense of New York City, Chicago and South Korea.
While in the Army, Norman Weslin married. He and his wife Mary adopted two children. He currently has two grandchildren and one great grandchild. He and his wife became involved in the pro-life movement early in their marriage, and they started Birthrights, Life Support Centers, and political action committees in an effort to stop the killing of Jesus' babies. In 1980 Mary died in a tragic automobile accident. Norman then decided to convert his home to "The Mary Weslin Homes for Pregnant, Unwed Mothers." Since then, over 300 mothers have lived in his Homes. Many of these mothers were reconciled with their families before giving birth to their babies. 226 babies were born directly through the Homes in the hospital - under doctors' care.
After his wife's death Norman decided to join the priesthood and became a missionary priest. One of his experiences in the priesthood was to work with Mother Teresa for a nine-month learning experience counseling alcoholics and drug addicts in the slums of New York. Father had been an alcoholic for twenty years prior to this assignment, but he has been recovered for more than thirty years now.
Father Norman has been faithful in fighting abortion his entire adult life. After twelve years of picketing killing centers and sidewalk counseling, Father realized that we could not stop satan's multi-billion dollar child-killing industry by ourselves - but that Jesus could and would if we made the sacrifice of confronting satan directly at the killing centers.
Father has been to prison 70 to 80 times as a result of peaceful, non-violent efforts to place his body between the killer and Jesus' babies. His last jail term was a five-month sentence in Federal Prison.
Father Norman has faced four federal charges for praying on his knees on a public sidewalk in front of a Planned Parenthood killing center. He is committed to stopping satan from killing Jesus Christ's babies while they are still helpless in their mothers' wombs.
Compare Obama’s life story with Fr. Weslin’s as posted by Mrs. Don-o in #10 and see who the real man is.
How sad that the one who supports the unborn was arrested and the one who voted to deny medical care to a baby surviving an abortion is honored. God help us!
Happy Birthday Father! The new life, the Good Life begins!
Good job!
God coulda took me instead.
RIP.
May he rest in peace, and may all the children he saved from abortion come to meet him as he enters heaven.
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Although I’m not Catholic, I’ve long admired traditional Catholic standing up for the rights of the unborn. What Notre Dame did in this case, both in arresting this wonderful giant of the faith as well as awarding an honorary degree to that worthless proabort POS in the White House,is beyond reprehensible.
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Prayers up.
Will pray for this brave man.