Posted on 04/06/2010 4:41:28 AM PDT by Wontsubmit
Cardinal George of Chicago will honor Barack Obama’s racist friend and spiritual advisor Father Pfleger in a special ceremony this week. Like his buddy Jeremiah Wright, Father Pfleger is known for his intolerant outbursts at the pulpit. Pfleger said, “America is the greatest sin against God.”
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How about excommunication instead?
They just go on and start a commie church with no Catholic sanctions, but wear vestments and use the word Catholic.
Kind'a like the non-uniformed jihadi's ... y'can't tell the players without a program.
Cardinal George is an IDIOT on this!!! They are piling coals on their OWN HEADS!!!
God wants to liberate mankind...and Satan (Allah and Obama) want to make us submit to their domination.
In that manner of thinking, American (with all her faults) is a paean to God and an insult to all who hate freedom.
I think Pfleger is declaring that America is an insult to his god, Lucifer.
This is what Phleger is and all that he has to look foward to:
2Peter 2
False Prophets and Their Punishment
2But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive opinions. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Even so, many will follow their licentious ways, and because of these teachers* the way of truth will be maligned. 3And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell* and committed them to chains* of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgement; 5and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on a world of the ungodly; 6and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction* and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;* 7and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man greatly distressed by the licentiousness of the lawless 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds that he saw and heard), 9then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgement 10—especially those who indulge their flesh in depraved lust, and who despise authority.
Bold and wilful, they are not afraid to slander the glorious ones,* 11whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not bring against them a slanderous judgement from the Lord.* 12These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and when those creatures are destroyed,* they also will be destroyed, 13suffering* the penalty for doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, revelling in their dissipation* while they feast with you. 14They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! 15They have left the straight road and have gone astray, following the road of Balaam son of Bosor,* who loved the wages of doing wrong, 16but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
17 These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the deepest darkness has been reserved. 18For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with licentious desires of the flesh they entice people who have just* escaped from those who live in error. 19They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for people are slaves to whatever masters them. 20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was passed on to them. 22It has happened to them according to the true proverb,
‘The dog turns back to its own vomit’,and,
‘The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.’
And one wonders why this X-Episcopalian (me) doesn’t go find solace in the Catholic Church? The same thing is going to happen to the RC’s as happened to the Episcopalians. Creeping socialism ... big tent. I’m not going through that again.
What happened to Cardinal George?
Once upon a time he was a solid conservative Catholic leader....
See post#6. The disease of the heresy of “Liberation Theology” has contaminated his soul like many ministers today.
When was that? This is all about recruiting converts in the “communy”.
WTF? Over.
When he was a Bishop in Oregon & Washington.
This is now a Christless, crossless religion. Not worthy of anyone’s time or support. Run, don’t walk away. Leave their house to them desolate.
What Catholics can do is cut off the monetary giving. If you give money do something specific for your local parish..maybe pay the phone bill one month, buy candles, etc. but do not give a penny to the local Bishop’s fund drives making it clear to the Bishop that you want no part of funding sexual abuse cover-ups or giving honor to someone like Pfleger.
There are good Catholic Parish’s in most metro areas.
Find one and support it.
Evil will not prevail.
It is the faithful teaching of Rome, not the weakness of man, that is the Church.
Evil will not prevail? Which “direction” is the RC church going ... is it moving left, steady or moving right? It is moving left, one baby-step at a time (Notre Dame, etc). There may be a parish that is still “good” as there are some Episcopal parishes that are ... but THE CHURCH, the organization, is moving left ... and that’s why I “left.” I have enough of this socialist crap Monday through Saturday ... I don’t need it from the pulpit on Sunday too. What is a shame is seeing this cancer not only infect our government, but also our churches.
what do you expect from an area steeped in socialist ideals and values. It affects everything including the church - Catholic and Protestant. The Cardinal George is in the socialist world. Wheaton College is into the social justice program. Trinity’s colleges are now advocating social justice too. I am not surprised because in the 1990’s the social justice garbage was being introduced as part of the Association of Theological Schools - the accrediting branch for theological training institutions. The independent, non accredited theological training schools have not been imploded by this heresy.
Quit reading the NY Times and pay attention to Rome.
The Pope is appointing much more conservative Bishops into key, previously liberal strongholds.
I reject your assertion the Church is moving left.
Take a look at the Leadership and the following of Archbishop Chaput in Denver.
Next: Organize the running of the Altar Boys on the feast of St. Pedophilia ...
Clerics are now beyond parody.
Father Pfleger
Gun rights folks know him as "Snuffy" Pfleger, for openly calling for someone to kill a gun shop owner.
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