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To Rev. Jose Pimentel, a priest who has led services at Naval Base Coronado and Naval Air Station North Island for eight years, the loss of his parish isn’t just a personal loss — it’s a loss of the 1st Amendment rights of service members on bases.
“One issue is discrimination (and) another is the violation of your right to practice your religion,” he said when reached by phone Friday
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What’s stopping these Catholics from going off base to worship?
Priests aren’t happy with room and board and the giving of themselves to our troops? What’s wrong with the Church?
OUR ONCE FINE MILITARY IS OFf THE RAILS!! Trump Better step in!
Perhaps the Romans ought to do it for free or whatever their parishioners can donate
Let’s face it. Official Church teachings are not welcome in the new “Woke” Navy.
when are they going to close the mosques ???
But muzzies? Would be un/anti-islamic if they do the same thing to them.
There is nothing that gives you a greater sense of security than knowing that the smoldering residue of what was once the worlds greatest Navy is still protecting us with its highly-developed and modern weapons of incompetence, diversity, perversity, and wokeness...
“Therefore, we will reduce redundancies and capture efficiencies by realigning resources”.
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That is a big stretch. The First Amendment says nothing about our Federal government providing places of worship anywhere. When I was a kid, I remember the Fitzpatricks moving to our rural Georgia community and attending our Methodist Church when there were no Catholic Churches within a hundred miles. I'm sure there are Catholic Churches just off base. Catholic Bishoprics should study and answer why Priests are not joining the military.
Members of the Coronado and North Island parish say the community they have formed around the base chapel can’t be replicated elsewhere.
“It’s a Navy chapel — a community thing,” said Anne-Marie Miley, a retired Navy pilot who said she has volunteered at the chapel for 11 years. “We get to meet up with other retirees and active duty personnel. The church out in town has a large congregation; it’s much more personal to go on base.”
Richard Haas, a retired Navy Captain who said he has attended chapel at Coronado for 30 years, agreed.
“It’s part of being in the military — the camaraderie,” Haas said. “To me it’s synonymous, you all have a common thread — you served in the military.”
Catholics on active duty also have needs many civilian priests can’t accommodate, Pimentel said. Sacraments such as Holy Communion, confirmation and marriages can be challenging for service members and their families when balancing deployment schedules.
“It’s hard to quantify what I do,” Pimentel said, saying he’s done everything from performing weddings and baptisms to counseling families of service members who died by suicide.
“I’m a 25-year veteran of the Navy and Air Force, so I can provide a certain level of support they wouldn’t get from the civilian side,” he said.
You can guarantee that race and homosexuality training will continue...
Couldn’t Lay Priests do this, if there is such a designation as Lay Priests.
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and I assume the protestants will be the left swinging ones....
Better call Francis the talking donkey...
Update...
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The United States Navy, or the Department of Defense, will NOT be cancelling its contract with Catholic Priests who serve our men and women in the Armed Forces so well, and with such great compassion & skill. This will no longer be even a point of discussion!
@CardinalDolan
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