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Report: Nathan Phillips Led A Group Of Protesters Attempting To Disrupt Catholic Mass In DC
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| 01/22/2019
| John Sexton
Posted on 01/22/2019 8:20:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Catholic News Agency is reporting that Nathan Phillips, the man who confronted a group of Catholic high school students at the Lincoln Memorial last Friday, attempted to disrupt Mass at the nation’s largest Catholic Church on Saturday.
While chanting and playing ceremonial drums, a group of Native American rights activists reportedly led by Nathan Phillips attempted Jan. 19 to enter Washington, D.C.s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception during a Saturday evening Mass.
The group of 20 demonstrators was stopped by shrine security as it tried to enter the church during its 5:15 pm Vigil Mass, according to a shrine security guard on duty during the Mass…
The guard told CNA the situation was tense.
Im just really grateful that nothing too bad happened, they were really angry.
The guard said the doors to the church had to be locked to keep the drummers outside. A second source confirmed the guard’s account but the National Shrine’s spokesperson refused to confirm whether the group had attempted to come inside.
All of this happened Saturday evening when people on social media, having heard only one side of the story, were lashing out at the Covington High students and praising Phillips. There’s video from outside the church that night which shows a group of people drumming and singing. After the song ends a student with the Indigenous Youth Council says, “On our lands is where this Basilica sits.” He then termed what had happened to Nathan Phillips a manifestation of “historic, colonial violence.” Does historic, colonial violence mostly consist of smirking?
As I said on Twitter, this story is more evidence that Nathan Phillips is someone who looks to create confrontations, not someone who is the victim of one. His initial story about being surrounded by Catholic High students wasn’t true. His story about being blocked from proceeding wasn’t true. What is true is that he walked into the crowd followed by a cameraman and a guy telling the kids to go back to Europe. And it appears his stunt the next night at the Basilica was more of the same.
In a related story, Covington Catholic High School met with law enforcement Monday because of threats the school was receiving.
On Monday, Sanders said officials at Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills met with local law enforcement to come up with a plan to ensure student safety. Sanders told CNN the move came after threats against the school and some students in the wake of an incident captured in a viral video over the weekend at the March for Life in Washington.
After meeting with local authorities, we have made the decision to cancel school and be closed on Tuesday, January 22, in order to ensure the safety of our students, faculty and staff, says a letter from school principal Robert Rowe that was posted on CNN affiliate WKRCs website.
All activities on campus will be canceled for the entire day and evening. Students, parents, faculty and staff are not to be on campus for any reason. Please continue to keep the Covington Catholic Community in your prayers, Rowe wrote.
Other schools in the area were closed because of the weather, so it’s possible Covington would have been closed today on that basis alone, but other high schools presumably aren’t receiving threats.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; covington; disruption; indigenousyouth; iyc; mass; nathanphillips; nativeyouthcouncil; prolife
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To: SeekAndFind
This guy is a walking conspiracy to deprive others of civil rights. Hope the stolen valor thing comes back to bite him hard and fast.
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posted on
01/22/2019 9:25:43 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Nobody is coming to save the day)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/22/2019 9:47:09 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: SeekAndFind
Nathan is a big liar. He is not about any cause. He wants to blackmail people. And he will lie about anything just to get on camera or to get money.
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posted on
01/22/2019 9:59:14 PM PST
by
poinq
To: SeekAndFind
Does historic, colonial violence mostly consist of smirking? Just think if Custer and the 7th Cavalry had had a battery of Gatling Smirkers at the Greasy Grass.
To: nopardons
True enough but Cotton Mather the most influential cleric of the time certainly made it clear Indians were Satan's imps and this mentality helped the exterminationist mindset that was pretty obvious in the Pequot War and Metacomet’s War. In any case while the palm for the first Indian massacre by English settlers seems to go to Lord Delaware in 1610 in Virginia the Wessagusset affair in 1623 kicked of similar activities in New England. English settlers whether Puritan or so called cavaliers just wanted the dam* Indians gone unless they could be enslaved. The Spaniards had so many Indians that even after the epidemic cycle of the 1530-1550 period they couldn't kill them all and they were still so numerous that they were a good labor source. There were a few attempts by English speaking whites to convert and ‘civilize’ the stone age natives but the Paxton Boys were more in keeping with general attitudes towards the Indians.
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posted on
01/22/2019 10:31:12 PM PST
by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/22/2019 10:31:51 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: robowombat
You're pulling stuff about the English colonists, which happened in isolated places and long BEFORE the Spanish Catholics ( who were in other places and most of those in Mexico and South America, at during those times ) ever did ANYTHING positive for Indians of any stripe.
Wanna play games with this, do ya?
How about THE SPANISH INQUISITION, or even long before that, when ALL of Europe and England were Catholic Christian places and the treatment of the Jews?
Trust me, you do NOT want to go this route with me!
And I said NOTHING bad about Catholics, EVER, on this site. Oh okay, the present Pope it a disgusting LEFTY COMMIE, who is destroying the Catholic Church. But that's against him and the cardinals and bishops who support him and his horrible positions...NOT against Catholicism!
OTOH...you posted utter crap about early Protestant colonists, for NO reason at all and trying to rewrite history through the sin of omission!
And FYI...Cotton Mather was a nutcase who was also against the Quakers and other Protestant sects.
Oh and yoooooooooooo hooooooooooooooooo....the Indians MURDERED every man, woman, and child in Jamestown! But I guess that now you're just thinking ( and better not post ) that they "deserved" to be killed off.
Just WHAT did Virginia Dare ever do to deserve being killed by the Indians; pray tell.
To: nopardons; robowombat
Bless your little hearts.
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:02:54 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(May Jesus Christ be praised.)
To: nopardons
Yours is the most disorganized bit of writing I have seen in a long while. Are you drunk? Cut the Black Legend BS, my ancestors are English. Cotton Mather and his Puritan brethern were learned bigots. Mather was the most influential religious figure in New England for a century until Jonathan Edwards and Isaac Backus, who were certainly a great improvement.
The English at the settler level wanted the Indians gone, how that didn't care. The Spanish and French, for different reasons , had to try and find some sort of modus to deal with the natives.The Inquisition had nothing to do with the natives. In Mexico and I suppose Peru it was focused on heretics and crypto Jews. The current Papa Loco is irrelevant to discussing the period from 1517 to 1800 or so.
Review copy before posting to tighten it up and get rid of the hyperbolic self righteousness.
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:03:04 PM PST
by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
To: nopardons
Oh and yoooooooooooo hooooooooooooooooo....the Indians MURDERED every man, woman, and child in Jamestown! But I guess that now you're just thinking ( and better not post ) that they “deserved” to be killed off.
Just WHAT did Virginia Dare ever do to deserve being killed by the Indians; pray tell.
Where the h*ll did that come from. Opechancanough directed a general attack on the British settlements in 1622, but I assure Jamestown was not destroyed. As to Ms. Dare, nobody knows what happened to Raleigh's colony, although it seems likely they merged with the Lumbees. Heather Locklear is a good example of the ‘Fighting Lumbees’ as they are locally called. A blond, blue eyed Indian with a temper and a hard time handling liquor.
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:10:16 PM PST
by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
To: robowombat
It was as “logical” as the post of yours, that I originally replied to. See how that works? :-)
To: nopardons
You are tiresome. Good night and Goodbye.
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:17:22 PM PST
by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
To: robowombat
Only YOU, you bigot, would find me "tiresome".
Do toddle off...it is late.
To: nopardons
"
Just WHAT did Virginia Dare ever do to deserve being killed by the Indians; pray tell"
Do you have a source that states she was killed by the Indians?
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posted on
01/23/2019 12:21:23 AM PST
by
rxsid
(HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: SeekAndFind
This guy needs to have a couple of holes put in him.
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posted on
01/23/2019 12:46:14 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: robowombat
“For the rest here in North America, aside from missionaries (again) from the German pietist groups and the Quakers, we pretty much just wanted our neighbors from the Stone Age to just beat it towards the setting sun.”
Ah, but the Shrine is in Anacostia, which was part of Maryland before the formation of the District of Columbia. And when, in the later 17th Century, the local American Indian Tribes from what are now St Mary's, Charles, and Prince Georges Counties, packed up and threatened to move west with the Senecas, who were migrating from the Carolinas to Western Pennsylvania, the Governor of the Proprietary Colony of Maryland sent a delegation to implore them to stay. Most of them did stay, and their descendants are living in Southern Maryland to this day. Maryland was founded as a Proprietary Colony of the Calvert family as a refuge for Catholics.
As for one of the demonstrators assertion that the Shrine had been built on ‘their land,’ was he a Piscataway, a Mattawoman, a Potomac, or any of the other Conoy tribes who lived along the Potomac River and its tributaries? If not, he speaks with forked tongue.
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posted on
01/23/2019 12:48:39 AM PST
by
VietVet
To: robowombat
Wow! Heather Locklear is a Lumbee? I hadn’t heard that. There is a substantial community of Lumbee here in the Baltimore area.
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posted on
01/23/2019 12:59:02 AM PST
by
VietVet
To: SeekAndFind
He’s not even an INDIAN!! Just another Ward Churchill! Making money off of High Cheekbones.....like Fauxchohauntas!
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posted on
01/23/2019 2:16:27 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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