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... made quite a splash Sunday morning at St. Sabina's Catholic Church.....

Another example of the hideous double standard by my church's "leadership." When some pro-abortion democrat like Sharpton (did he not recently address the NARAL infanticide fest just a few weeks ago, pledging his eternal fealty to the culture of death?) wants to take the pulpit at a catholic church (the memory of the deplorable Hillary Clinton making a purely political speech during the NY senate campaign in a Rochester diocese church is still fresh) to spew a noxious mix of race huckterism and class warfare, the door to the nave is wide open. No concern for the Church's 501(c)(3) qualification or the preservation of federal funding for its hospitals and charities is exhibited by the hierarchy at moments like these.

It is easy to imagine the Wrong Reverend Pfleger clapping and swaying as the let-no-unwanted-baby-go-to-term politician spins his rhymes and rhetoric. Yet our priests haven't the guts to call pro-abort catholic politicians like Kennedy, Dodd, Kerry and Davis to task for their very public sin from the very same pulpits during Sunday Mass (with the courageous exception of the Bishop of Sacramento) for fear of being accused of mixing church and state.

Woe to these pastors, like Pfleger, who lead their sheep astray. Fr. Pfleger, how do you sleep at night, having let this man, who claims that infanticide is a sacred human right, stand at the same alter as the living Body of Christ?

[Mudboy Slim]

The Catholic Church has taken a great hit to its credibility over the last few years and the damage is almost entirely self-inflicted, IMHO. That's really too bad as there are a lot of great folks who still swear by Catholicism, but cannot find a Catholic church that is worthy of their time and devotion. Yer example is yet another excellent example of how far the Catholic Church has fallen over the years...I hope the next Pope addresses this as a primary goal of his reign.

FReegards...MUD

BTW...you've gotta one-year FReep birthday coming up...Congratulations!!