Posted on 01/26/2021 5:53:59 AM PST by Red Badger
There's one name you won't see in any of the stories about Pfleger. It starts with an "O" and ends with an "A".
It's funny because those names used to be associated quite a bit. When I broke the Pfleger story back in the day, I called him the white Jeremiah Wright. It was a fitting description because the two men were linked by their ties to Farrakhan and their racist bluster. Obama was forced to cut ties with both Wright and Pfleger.
Even though Pfleger used to be Obama's "moral compass".
Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the South Side, who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that compass set, he says.
"I always have felt in him this consciousness that, at the end of the day, with all of us, you've got to face God," Pfleger says of Obama. "Faith is key to his life, no question about it. It is central to who he is, and not just in his work in the political field, but as a man, as a black man, as a husband, as a father.... I don't think he could easily divorce his faith from who he is."
Pfleger kept on ranting about his favorite cause: gun control.
During an address at an anti-gun rally in front of Chuck’s, Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina’s Church, exhorted the crowd to “drag” shop owner, John Riggio, from his shop “like a rat” and “snuff” him. Rev. Pfleger went on to tell the crowd that legislators that vote against gun control legislation should be “snuffed” as well. As many know, “snuff” is slang for especially violent murder.
“We’re gonna snuff out legislators who are voting [garbled] against our gun laws and we’re coming for you because we are not going to sit idly.”
And then the child abuse allegations arrived.
The Chicago Tribune has interviews with two brothers who allege that Pfleger began abusing them from the ages of 12 and 13.
Nearly five decades later, the two men now say that former choir director, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, molested them dozens of times over several years beginning in the early 1970s. The brothers said they were sexually abused in Pfleger’s room at three churches, beginning at Precious Blood and including St. Sabina on the South Side, where the well-known priest has been assigned since his 1975 ordination.
The men, who are in their early 60s and live in Texas, said the abuse was a secret they had never revealed, not even to each other, until the younger of the two filed a complaint Jan. 4 to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. The archdiocese announced the next day that Pfleger had agreed to step away from ministry while an allegation of abuse was investigated.
“I go back in my young mind and I say to myself, ‘What’s happening here?’ And I ask myself, ‘What do I do, you know, other than freeze?’” said the older brother, a 63-year-old former police sergeant and U.S. Air Force veteran, choking back tears. “You lay there and you hold your breath and hope for the best.”
The men have asked not to be publicly named, in part to protect the privacy of relatives who still live in Chicago and, they said, fear possible fallout from supporters of Pfleger. The older brother filed his complaint with the archdiocese Friday.
The older brother said Pfleger began molesting him about a year after they met, when he was 12, and continued from 1970 to 1976, in dozens of incidents at Precious Blood, Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Glenview, St. Sabina and the Mundelein seminary.
The man said he often tried to pretend he was sleeping during the abuse, which included acts of penetration, according to his complaint. The two were always alone in the bedroom during the incidents, he told the Tribune. There were no threats, discussions or apologies afterward, he said.
Obama couldn't have found a better choice for keeping his moral compass straight.
“ He disobeyed the church and the church allowed his defiance.
Says a lot about the church.”
Yes, it does.
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Scratch a leftist, find a pedophile just below the surface.
Farrakklan and his self hating white puppet.
Well, it says a lot about the Chicago archdiocese. I’m not sure how you generalize one case to an organization with around 1 billion adherents.
My preemptive condolences to their families for their sudden fatal kung flu death.
If they can’t kill them in the womb they’ll molest them soon after birth.
For sure....
Exactly.
It’s quite possible he was able to defy the Church by threatening to expose his fellow gay molesters among the bishops.
Cannot speak for other religions, but I can address your comment as it relates to the Catholic Church. Moving some pervert priests has been a way that some corrupt bishops cover up for the perverts.
The policy of moving priests around has more to do with keeping priests as spiritual guides to their flocks rather than letting them settle in and become familiar members of the family. It is often difficult for the parish and for the priest when a priest is assigned to another parish, but it is all part of the set-up.
These sexual perversion incidents, while sensational and headline-grabbing do not represent the behavior of the vast majority of priests or of the clergy of any other religion, but that does not stop some people from generalizing.
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
Obama is a Muslim. Muslims molest young boys. It’s what they do.
Makes me wonder if Obama participated. Wouldn’t be remotely surprised.
These men deserve justice and if all they can get in that form is to publically expose this man, then so be it.
True.
The Lavender Mafia. The Galen Conference. It’s all part of who is actually running the Catholic Church now with Pope Frank. They infiltrated and took over.
I called this at least 12 years ago here on FR.
“Pfleger has been relieved of duties.........”
So now he can go back to picketing gun shops.
” if all they can get in that form is to publically expose this man, then so be it.”
I agree with that. They can defend themselves.
By the way, that MyPillow guy Wendell was just on Rush. Wow! Dynamite!
Happens in other Christian religions too.
We had about a 30 yr old, show up 1 Sunday, he just was real nice, loved being around kids, filled in on the organ, helped around the small church, This went on for a few Sundays, 3 people including the Pastor had one of those warning dreams, like Joseph did, that he was a danger to the kids. Pastor kept quite watching and waiting to see if others had similar dreams, He was approached after service by the other 2 who had similar dreams. Guy never came back after he was told he was NOT welcome.
Nothing we could prove except he was too good to be true. Assembly of God believe in such dream warnings, speaking in tongues as they did on day of Pentecost, and laying of hands on the sick.
Why would these boys go to three different churches. Pfleger is probably scum but that doesn’t make sense.
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