Posted on 04/16/2010 2:59:01 PM PDT by NYer
CHICAGO, Illinois, April 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) In the latest episode in an ongoing controversy, Fr. Michael Pfleger has again publicly voiced his support for women's ordination, this time in a comment posted to his Facebook fan page. In that comment, he also notes that the archdiocese made him issue the apology he put out on Wednesday.
Sunday, I mentioned in my Sermon that I believe in married Priests and Woman Priests, the Facebook comment reads. I was then told that I had to apologize for saying it durning [sic] a Sermon because that is not allowed, even though that is my opinion.
I have received much hate from the right-winged who want my removal, he added. Amazing... Nobody Blogged me or youtubed me about helping Save our children or Stopping the Violence...
His comment follows a Wednesday statement published on the Archdiocese of Chicago's website, which has since been removed. In the statement he admits that he advocated for women priests and bishops in his homily, but then says that, While this is my personal opinion, I do respect and follow the Catholic Church teachings and I am sorry I failed to do this.
Pflegers Sunday homily had been posted to the website of his parish, Saint Sabina's Catholic Church, and the 30-second clip in which he made the controversial remarks quickly made it onto Youtube. The homily and Fr. Pfleger's call for women's ordination remained posted on the parish website as of press time.
According to Diogenes of CatholicCulture.org, Pfleger's apology won't do.
If you respect and follow the Catholic Church teachings,' you don't hold a 'personal opinion' completely at odds with those teachings, the pundit wrote yesterday. If you respect the teachings of the Church regarding priestly ministry, you don't use the pulpit to advance a 'personal opinion' of any kind, let alone an opinion critical of the Church.
Based on the statement above, would you say that Father Pfleger understands, accepts, and submits to the authority of the magisterium? he asks. No. Do you think Cardinal George has the intelligence to reach the same conclusion? Yes. Will the cardinal allow a priest who disregards Church authority to remain in place as a pastor? Wait and see.
Calls and an e-mail to the Archdiocese of Chicago were not returned by press time. LSN also did not hear back from Fr. Pfleger by press time.
To contact the Chicaco Archdiocese:
Office of the Archbishop
Archdiocese of Chicago
PO Box 1979
Chicago, IL. 60690-1979
Phone: 312-534-8230
E-Mail: archbishop@archchicago.org
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Chicago's Fr. Pfleger Apologizes but Reaffirms Support for Women's Ordination
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10041504.html
Chicago Archdiocese-Honored Priest Pushes Women's Ordination
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10041405.html
Cardinal George at Pfleger Award Ceremony: 'Abortion Kills Racial Justice'
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10040815.html
Chicago Archdiocesan Office to Honor Pro-Obama Fr. Pfleger
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10040606.html
Ping!
Ping!
Another Obama and Rev. Wright drinking buddy... He cannot possibly be in his right mind to care on as he does.....
Please, can the Catholics find a way to get rid of him? He needs to spend a couple of years somewhere in a monastery enjoying Benedictine silence.
This guy is a real son of a bitch.
He is a member of the faith and knows the doctrine. He must be demented, or a plant, ala zero.
Father Pfleger is known as the “Eminem of Black Liberation Theology”.
I hear about “all the good” he’s done, but I question his motives because he’s not a humble man.
He seems to take delight in going against the Church and his apology was not sincere.
He is a member of the faith and knows the doctrine. He must be demented, or a plant, ala zero.
"Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal".--James (Jim) Cone,
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)
SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"
WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.
HANNITY: But I'm a reverend
WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?
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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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story
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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
Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008
In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obamas pastor in a heated interview about his Churchs teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...
Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004
In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.
The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD
“What we have here, is a failure to excommunicate”
From your mouth to God’s ear.
That deserves a Guinness!
LOL. Perfect.
What a clown! And the Catholic Church still gives him a pass? I know too many Catholics who can’t stand this guy, but because he supposedly has some sort of “in” with minorities, he can say, act, and basically do what he wants with no repercussion.
Homily rap by Flavor Phleger.
EWTN is going to be interesting tonight.
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