Posted on 04/27/2011 8:40:27 PM PDT by topher
Via Chicago Tribune, Cardinal George is quoted:
“If that is truly your attitude, you have already left the Catholic Church and are therefore not able to pastor a Catholic parish,” George wrote in a letter dated today.“A Catholic priest’s inner life is governed by his promises, motivated by faith and love, to live chastely as a celibate man and to obey his bishop,” the cardinal continued. “Breaking either promise destroys his vocation and wounds the Church.
Link to the Chicago Tribune article:
Chicago Breaking News: Cardinal George Suspends Father Michael Pfleger
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I hope this is true. This should have been done years ago.
FINALLY!
He can still get a gig with Reverend Wright.
Central Antarctica needs his particular pastoral skills ASAP.
Freegards
Too many, clergy and laity alike, have excommunicated themselves by their deeds. Its time it was recognized.
Especially since winter just started there!
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. (I really don’t mean the second part) — but the first part — AMEN and double AMEN!
Try this one:
Cardinal suspends Pfleger: 'You are not able to pastor a Catholic parish'
We are allowed spiritual ammunition just as the rosary is a spiritual weapon...
We are in a battle with Satan, and we the ammunition to win the battle...
Prays needed for the South -- tornadoes everywhere...
National Weather Service appears to not be working right -- communications and warning systems are broken today...
I’ve had the prayerful ammunition for this priest long before this happening. God bless Cardinal Geroge!
That priest in Spain has been out... By his actions...
About the only good news is that Northern and Cental Atlanta may be spared. South Atlanta might be hammered -- by two tornadoes...
It is really bad tonight...
About stinkin’ time.
Sounds like the Cardinal gave him a decent smackdown that was WAAAY overdue. But better late than never. I guess.
The south NEEDS lots of prayers BIGTIME.
God Bless the Cardinal, he did the right and needed thing!
Excommunicating oneself is akin to a tree falling in the forest and no one hears it.
Public and formal excommunication is the answer.
Hey, Cardinal George, you microcephalic idiot! Don’t you think you should have done this back when “Snuffy” Pfleger threatened to murder a local businessman? You know, threatened to drag him out on the sidewalk and “snuff him out”? How does THAT fit your church?
What happy news. Perhaps he will form his own non-Catholic congregation of a few dozen, like that goof in Arizona or wherever. Or maybe they could join Trinity UCC, where they’d fit right in.
The Cardinal wanted the Commie to take over running a high school, but the Commie declined. A good thing all around.
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