Posted on 02/16/2017 8:41:16 PM PST by marshmallow
Worshippers were left shaken after militants denounced their priest in a speech at his pulpit
Militant socialists stormed a Mass in Venezuela on Sunday, shouting slogans such as “Satan in a cassock” and “fascist!”
Congregants told Reuters that about 20 people barged in to San Pedro Claver church in the “23 De Enero” community, shouting “Chavez lives!”
The area is militantly loyal to Venezuela’s socialist government.
Luis Arias, 67, a catechism teacher, said: “Some people were scared, obviously, but no one was hurt.
“They said: ‘Because the priests have spoken about politics, we have the right too.'”
The leader of the group, who works at a nearby radio station, made a political speech from the pulpit and denounced the local priest who had been sharing Church pronouncements critical of President Nicolas Maduro’s government.
Archbishop Diego Padron, president of Venezuela’s bishops’ conference, said the attack at San Pedro Claver church was not an isolated one.
“There must be a line, an order, to intimidate the Church, to lower its discourse, to [silence it],” he told Reuters. “The government’s retaliation against the declarations of the conference is intimidation.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
This is where we are headed in America. They will use the exact same arguments. Our lawyers and judges better be ready to push back -hard!.
Expect your values and religion to be challenged in a Socialistic/ Fascist society.
Moral and religious fortitude is part of prepping for the unknown and unexpected ...
I fully expected this if Hillary became CIC.
I still stay ready for something like this, but not from the Clinton brownshirts. Rather, the anti-Christian religion of peace is now the most likely to do this as I see it. Or worse.
Only 20 commies? Hell, we have that many in Congress who storm around it all the time and sound just like the Chavesistas (because they are).
Well, if they were messing my mass, they must be wanting to meet God, eh?
There are wolves out there that would see such a gathering as an easy target.
I agree and do as does my wife and any friend who might accompany me to Mass.
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