Chaput emerging as a warrior-bishop

Philly.com ^ | February 19, 2012 | David O'Reilly

[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[NYer]

ping!

[HapaxLegamenon]

Naturally they have to go to the National Catholic Distorter to find the negative view of Chaput.

[MSSC6644]

Leave it to a liberal to actually understand that truth will be “incendiary and divisive.” Too bad they try to make that sound like a pejorative.

Long live Archbishop Chaput. May our good Lord continue to bless him.

NYer, please ping your Catholic list. Thanks.

[Jacquerie]

Hussein has rolled the GOP quite handily these past three years. With every success he grew bolder. I think this latest outrage, to force the Church to violate it’s law will be his political Stalingrad. I don’t see the Church folding and when all is said and done, people with brains will come to see him for the totalitarian he would be if given another four years. This will hurt him badly by November.

[Balding_Eagle]

I think I read somewhere that the Catholic Church has already signaled that they will ‘compromise’, or more succintly, fold.

[maryz]

Schneck said. Chaput "sometimes speaks so clearly and with such force that it's more a conversation-stopper than an invitation to discourse

First time I've heard "speaking clearly" called a conversation-stopper! But I guess if your idea of "conversation" is a never-ending stream of mealy-mouthed generalities, I suppose it could be . . . ;-)

[Campion]

I think I read somewhere

Well, there ya go! It must be true then ...

[john drake]

This might get a little interesting; Chaput is of French Canadian and American Indian (Potowatomie) blood. The enemies of religious freedom won’t be able to easily pull the race card on this man of God, if they think that is a last ditch effort (don’t put it past these death worshippers.) Go get him, Bishop. We’re behind you in prayer, financial support, or worse, if it gets that way.

[denydenydeny]

"I'd rather see his energies more focused on issues people can rally around," such as education and the environment, said Lauren Bobzin, 25, of Narberth, who called herself a "proud Catholic."

Here we are again with Christianity as a community organizing group, Jesus as a community organizer, the Church as a big Occupy camp.

[Balding_Eagle]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2845182/posts

post 6.

[Cicero]

Yes. I was going to mention that he is half American Indian. Maybe that’s where the “warrior” comes from. We need a few warrior bishops, and if he comes across so strong that he astonishes them into silence, so much the better.

He was one of the first bishops I became aware of who totally resisted the left-wing “spirit of Vatican II” that has been so destructive to the Church. And he was among the first to clamp down on trouble-making dissident organizations that were spreading heresies under the pretence that they had something to do with Vatican II.

I would take any attacks on him by the left-wing press as a real compliment. He worries them.

[Incorrigible]

Take it to the heathens Archbishop Chaput!

[SevenofNine]

Did we have warrior bishop maybe during the time of Middle age or during Henry VIII regin NYER

I know during the time Borgias the mini series they mention one of cardinal was warriorlike

Can’t wait for season 2 of Borgias

[cloudmountain]

You won't find THIS news in the lamestream media...a bishop of the Catholic Church standing up and declaring The Truth.
God bless and keep him!

[cloudmountain]

Steve Krueger, national director of Catholic Democrats, had better get things straight: law is based on morality.
MORALITY came first, then the laws. So, bishops and priests speaking out for MORALITY aren't "replublican leaning"--they are speaking out for RIGHT.
Or we can admit that the Democrats have long been on the side of liberalizing drug laws, contraception and abortion policies, prostitution and such. That is, they are directly in conflict with all that we Christians (Catholics) hold near and dear.

The Bishop is right on.

[Campion]

That was the initial, somewhat conciliatory, statement released after Zero's "accommodation," before they had seen the details. IOW, you're way behind the times.

After they'd had time to look at it, they correctly stated that nothing had changed. Please read the current USCCB statement directly from their website.

[AnAmericanMother]

The classic Warrior Bishop:

Bishop Odo of Bayeux, who was (as you can see) quite active at the Battle of Hastings, and eventually commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry. The full caption reads: Hic Odo Eps (Episcopus) baculu(m) tenens confortat pueros" - "Here Odo the Bishop holding a club encourages the boys"

The Pottawatomies have had some pretty tough characters, too.

Apparently this is a very effective combination . . .

[SevenofNine]

Yeah I hear of that bishop LOL!

Never mind