Posted on 03/28/2008 10:56:39 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Cardinal Francis George has long opposed politics at the communion rail. But Sunday's anti-war protest at the start of his Easter homily spotlighted a frustrated faction in the Roman Catholic Church who believe committed Catholics must do more than preach and pray for peace.
Chicago police charged six protesters Sunday with felony criminal defacement of property and two counts of simple battery for spattering parishioners' clothes with stage blood. Five of the protesters are being held in lieu of $25,000 bail. The sixth, who served time in prison for illegally entering a U.S. military installation, received $35,000 bail.
Gerard Powers at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies said the mass was not the right place for a political protest.
"They can be applauded for their concern about a critically important issue," he said. "But their protest I think was misdirected . . . It's really a violation of the sacred space."
Does political protest belong in the cathedral? Here's what you had to say:
Scott: "A cathedral can be, among its other purposes, a center of inquiry, discussion and learning about what it means to be Christian in the world. However, disruption of a mass is absolutely the wrong way to take part in that discussion. I agree completely with the protesters' message; I despise the way they tried to communicate it."
Minku: "The argument for restricting protest to certain areas is really an argument for making protest completely ineffectual. In order to change anything substantial, sometimes social taboos and laws are broken. And that is OK."
Carl: "Protest, especially against unjust war that kills innocents, not only belongs in the cathedral, but, best of all, it should begin there, and the cathedral can join the lead. . . . Our comfort zones were crossed by this incident
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See 18 USC 248
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They would have been arrested after they’re trip to the ER from the beating they would have gotten at my church.
“Minku: “The argument for restricting protest to certain areas is really an argument for making protest completely ineffectual. In order to change anything substantial, sometimes social taboos and laws are broken. And that is OK.””
Fine with me. Let’s get your home address and the address of all your relatives and toss garbage on their lawns to protest the garbage spewing from your mouth.
Political protest you see and “sometimes social taboos and laws are broken.”
LOL!!!!
Heh. :)
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