Let’s play Global Thermonuclear War! (Sunday collection for Archdiocese for Military Services)

Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) has yet another attack piece against the important collection to be taken up this weekend for the Archdiocese for Military Services.

Fishwrap upbraids those who create “divisiveness” or who use sharp rhetoric.

And yet here is Fishwrap attacking an established, recognized ministry to well over 1 million lay people, some of whom are children, some of whom are suffering in horrible life-threatening circumstances. Some of them are poor, they work for almost nothing.

Do they deserve a handout after all the strife and division some of them create in the Church?

How about I create a card you can download and print to offer your disgust about the LCWR when it is time to take up a collection for women religious?

Hey! I recognize a good idea when I see it. Liberals are the experts at division. This is a Leftist idea and tactic.

I don’t see the USCCB rushing to denounce the tactic. The Left gets away with this garbage all the time. Not this time. Let’s start a card campaign, too!

Look. For those of you in Columbia Heights, I am making a point about how the Left works. I don’t really want to start a campaign against the sisters. But the LEFT thinks this is a great idea: attack Catholic chaplains and then create division in parish churches by smearing the Military Archdiocese as warmongers. I am kidding. They are serious.

Let us remember all the chaplains who have served and are serving the United States Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force this veteran’s day. 6 Army Chaplains have received the Medal of Honor for their actions and over 300 have died in combat while serving their soldier parishioners, whether, Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish. Over 25,000 ministers, priests and rabbis have answered the call to duty and served in the US Army over its 238 year history.

And also honor the latest Chaplain to receive the Medal of Honor, posthumously:

Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun, while assigned to Headquarters Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism, patriotism, and selfless service between Nov. 1-2, 1950. During the Battle of Unsan, Kapaun was serving with the 3rd Battalion of the 8th Cavalry Regiment. As Chinese Communist forces encircled the battalion, Kapaun moved fearlessly from foxhole to foxhole under direct enemy fire in order to provide comfort and reassurance to the outnumbered Soldiers. He repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire to recover wounded men, dragging them to safety. When he couldn’t drag them, he dug shallow trenches to shield them from enemy fire. As Chinese forces closed in, Kapaun rejected several chances to escape, instead volunteering to stay behind and care for the wounded. He was taken as a prisoner of war by Chinese forces on Nov. 2, 1950.

After he was captured, Kapaun and other prisoners were marched for several days northward toward prisoner-of-war camps. During the march Kapaun led by example in caring for injured Soldiers, refusing to take a break from carrying the stretchers of the wounded while encouraging others to do their part.

Once inside the dismal prison camps, Kapaun risked his life by sneaking around the camp after dark, foraging for food, caring for the sick, and encouraging his fellow Soldiers to sustain their faith and their humanity. On at least one occasion, he was brutally punished for his disobedience, being forced to sit outside in subzero weather without any garments. When the Chinese instituted a mandatory re-education program, Kapaun patiently and politely rejected every theory put forth by the instructors. Later, Kapaun openly flouted his captors by conducting a sunrise service on Easter morning, 1951.

When Kapaun began to suffer from the physical toll of his captivity, the Chinese transferred him to a filthy, unheated hospital where he died alone. As he was being carried to the hospital, he asked God’s forgiveness for his captors, and made his fellow prisoners promise to keep their faith. Chaplain Kapaun died in captivity on May 23, 1951.

Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun repeatedly risked his own life to save the lives of hundreds of fellow Americans. His extraordinary courage, faith and leadership inspired thousands of prisoners to survive hellish conditions, resist enemy indoctrination, and retain their faith in God and country. His actions reflect the utmost credit upon him, the 1st Cavalry Division, and the United States Army.

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