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Chicago Cardinal Francis George Suspends Rev. Michael Pfleger
Chicago Catholic pastor Dr. Rev. Michael Pfleger, speaking Sunday at Trinity United Church of Christ: Hillary thinks “I’m white I’m entitled”
Good riddance.Citing what he called threats from the Rev. Michael Pfleger to leave the church, Cardinal Francis George has removed the outspoken priest from St. Sabina parish and has suspended his “sacramental faculties as a priest.”
Pfleger had publicly feuded with the cardinal about possibly being reassigned to Leo High School, telling a radio show recently that he would look outside the Catholic church if offered no other choice.
“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.
“Many love and admire you because of your dedication to your people,” the cardinal wrote. “Now, however, I am asking you to take a few weeks to pray over your priestly commitments in order to come to mutual agreement on how you understand personally the obligations that make you a member of the Chicago presbyterate and of the Catholic Church.
“With this letter, your ministry as pastor of Saint Sabina Parish and your sacramental faculties as a priest of the Archdiocese are suspended.”
The cardinal ended the letter by saying, “This conflict is not between you and me; it’s between you and the Church that ordained you a priest, between you and the faith that introduced you to Christ and gives you the right to preach and pastor in his name. If you now formally leave the Catholic Church and her priesthood, it’s your choice and no one else’s. You are not a victim of anyone or anything other than your own statements.”
Father Pfleger thought he was bigger than the CHURCH.
Wrong….
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Father Michael Pfleger Returns to St. Sabina
Father Michael Pfleger returns to St. Sabina
He’s back after a two week suspension by Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George.
At St. Sabina on Sunday, ushers distributed fliers with a silhouette of boxing great Muhammad Ali that said: “Ain’t nothing like a comeback.”
When Pfleger entered the church, the congregation rose to their feet and cheered.
Later during his sermon, Pfleger spoke about his two-week suspension as a test of faith.
“You will fall. I will fall. And even though we fall, we can get back up again,” he said. “Stumbles will shake you. Stumbles will also purify you. They will cause you to ask yourself what really matters.
Flap knows that this character will be a gift that keeps on giving to John McCain and the GOP because Barack Obama and Howard Dean cannot hide him away like Jeremiah Wright.
One more time – Pfleger’s anti-white rant against Hillary Clinton:
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Father Michael Pfleger Removed from St. Sabina Parish
Father Michael Pfleger preaching at Barack Obama’s church, Trinity United. The mocking of Hillary Clinton around 2:10.
Father Michael Pfleger has been removed from his duties at St. Sabina Parish.
The firebrand pastor of St. Sabina parish was removed from his duties there Tuesday, according to a statement released by the Archdiocese of Chicago.
In the statement, Cardinal Francis George says he asked the Rev. Michael Pfleger, 59, to “take leave for a couple of weeks from his pastoral duties.” The statement said Pfleger “does not believe this to be the right step at this time.” “While respecting his disagreement, I have nevertheless asked him to use this opportunity to reflect on his recent statements and actions in the light of the Church’s regulations for all Catholic priests,” George said.
Cardinal George should have removed this NUTBALL years ago. The Cardinal should permanently retire him if he does not abstain from all political activity in accordance to church law and transfer him out of Chicago.
Damn the Catholic Church has alot of reconciliation to do. They have priests molesting children, pay $millions in damages and they have hate-mongers like Pfleger spewing black liberation crap from the pulpit.
No wonder the church has been in such disrepute.
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Michael Pfleger Watch: America is the Greatest Sin Against God
In a sermon given at Obama’s FORMER church, Pfleger describes how racist America is today and how natural this is, right after checking his notes
In the infamous “last straw for Obama” sermon a week ago Sunday at Trinity United, Father Michael Pfleger rants about a racist America.
“Racism is still America’s greatest addiction,” Pfleger says. “I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.”
There seems to be a mixed reaction to that from the pews. But Pfleger explains:
“If the greatest command is to love, than the sin against love must be the greatest sin against God who IS love and who calls us to love one another. So that this greatest sin against God, racism, it’s as natural as the air we breath.”
And, what EXACTLY is the relationship which spans decades between Barack Obama and Father Pfleger?
In September, the Obama campaign brought Pfleger to Iowa to host one of several interfaith forums for the campaign. Pfleger has given money to Obama’s campaigns and Obama as a state legislator directed at least $225,000 towards social programs at St. Sabina’s, according to the Chicago Tribune. Pfleger appears to have been scrubbed from the Obama campaign’s page that features the testimony of faith leaders, but you can see the cached version HERE.
The swift boating of Barack Obama will be alternated between Father Pfleger and Pastor Jeremiah Wright. These rants will NOT play well with white working class voters in the Midwest where the Presidential race will be either won or lost.
Will the Democrat Superdelegates EVEN notice?
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Father Michael Pfleger Watch: The Hillary Apology
Father Michael Pfleger Bashes the Clintons Again
Father Michael Pfleger Hammered by Chicago Cardinal Francis George
Barack Obama Watch: Time to Leave Trinity? The Response
Barack Obama Watch: Time to Leave Trinity?
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Father Michael Pfleger Watch: The Hillary Apology
Father Michael Pfleger preaching at Barack Obama’s church, Trinity United. The mocking of Hillary Clinton around 2:10.
And, after this sermon Father Pfleger returned to his church St. Sabina’s and launched into another tirade against the Clintons.
But, this morning Father Pfleger apologized on his church website after telling the Chicago press on Saturday night that he had received death threats and said: “They want to kill me…it’s been ugly.”
Last Sunday, I was invited by Trinity United Church of Christ to come and preach on the topic of race.
I agreed to do so because of my love for Trinity, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Rev. Otis Moss, III and because all my life I have sought to deal with the reality of racism. As I said, Last Sunday, I have committed myself to tear down the walls that divide us wherever they stand.
In 1966, as a junior in high school, amidst all the hate and meanness that surrounded me in Marquette Park, I heard more than the voice of Dr. king calling for community over chaos. I heard that small voice from within, that said, I am showing you this now, because you must spend your life trying to eradicate this.
The last few days have been the most painful days of my life, even more so than the murder of Jarvis, my foster son.
For years I have had to deal with media that have sought to define me and often times put me into their box or stereotype.
But that was the cost of being a public figure and for fighting in public battles. But this was a new level, when the world is meeting you for the first time from a dramatization in a sermon that I felt was in the sacredness of a sanctuary, among people who know me and then find a “Youtube†that in no way defines the sermon or the message that I preached, nor the person or pastor that I am. It is painful and shattering.
It is painful that as a result of this video over 3,000 email of hate, threats, and name calling, who go so far as to ask you to kill yourself or take your life, greet you in less than 24 hours, and you are bombarded by mean hateful and racial name calling, yes, it is very painful.
It is also grieving to me when a 1.5 minute “Youtube†video becomes the headlines across the world of papers and news stations, while the tragedy and death of earthquakes, cyclones, and tornadoes that have taken lives of people around this world, while the killing of our children across the country and here in Chicago, and the easy access to guns have become stories on page 18 and 19, and while people are at my front door, looking for food to eat or gas to get to work, indeed that grieves me.
Brothers and sisters, racism is an explosive and sensitive sin in our world and it is against the command to love, and against the God of love.
I said on Thursday, I apologize for words that I chose. I apologize for my dramatization that was for many who do not know me, simply typical dramatics I often use in sermons.
I apologize for anyone who was offended and who thought it to be mockery, that was not my intent, nor my heart.
For whatever damage that was caused to any human being and for any offense felt, especially to any of the candidates or their families, I am deeply sorry and I pray that my apology will be accepted even by those who say they won’t accept it.
I am neither a racist nor a sexist. I am constrained by this great Gospel that I have been called to preach, to be an agent of reconciliation, as well as a truth teller.
However – we must, if we are to move forward and become who God has called us to be as a human family, we must be willing to have an honest and open discussion on race and justice, and it must be on the equal ground at the foot of Calvary.
We have as a Country done many great things, but we will never become a great Country until justice flows like a river and righteousness like a mighty stream, for each and every human life.
As for what is next, I ask that you wrap me in prayer – I don’t know.
I ask that you pray, that I still might be a voice of truth, in season and out of season, and that I might have the courage to bear whatever wounds that may cost.
As for my defining – Dr. King, my mentor said, that he only wanted to be remembered as a Drum Major for Justice and indeed that is my only hope, and that is what I have tried to do since that afternoon in Marquette Park.
Hate me if you will. Hate my imperfect presentation. Hate my imperfect dramatization. Hate my imperfect articulation. I have never presumed to be anything, but imperfect, but I pray I can still beat the drum of justice, even if sometimes I am off beat.
Thank you.
Statement of apology to the church family.
Rev. Michael L. Pfleger
Pastor
The Faith Community of Saint Sabina
1210 West 78th Place
Chicago, Illinois 60620
773-483-4300
Barack Obama has, in the meantime, left his church of over twenty years, Trinity United, over this mess. But, are Father Pfleger’s apology and Obama’s non-repudiation and non-denouncement of Trinity United enough?
Watch Obama’s comments in the video below:
Barack Obama quits his hateful church but will not denounce it.
Barack Obama should have quit Trinity United years ago, unless he believes and accepts the black liberation theology crap that is promoted there week after week.
Why did Obama have Father Pfleger campaign for him in Iowa and pay his expenses. And, why did Obama obtain earmarks (paid by the United States treasury/taxpayers) worth hundreds of thousands delivered up to Pfleger’s church and ministry?
No, Pfleger’s apology to the Clinton’s is half-hearted and not to be believed – just as Obama’s resignation from his church.
Two words explain it all – POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT.
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Father Michael Pfleger Bashes the Clintons Again
Father Michael Pfleger Hammered by Chicago Cardinal Francis George
Barack Obama Watch: Time to Leave Trinity? The Response
Barack Obama Watch: Time to Leave Trinity?
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Father Michael Pfleger Bashes the Clintons Again
Joel and Victoria Osteen, along with their son, Jonathan, 13, host President Clinton and his daughter, Chelsea, at Lakewood Church on Sunday March 2, 2008
Father Michael Pfleger of Chicago’s St. Sabina’s church who has been reprimanded by the Cardinal of his Chicago archdiocese for remarks he made last Sunday at Barack Obama’s former church (Trinity United) apparently bashed the Clinton’s at his own church.
At his own church, St. Sabina’s, Pfleger said, “Hillary and McCain would wish they had a preacher with the integrity of Jeremiah Wright. … They got some old weak preacher…some old Joel Osteen cotton candy preacher.”
Listen to it HERE. The comments come at about 15:40 into the sermon.
On March 2, Bill and Chelsea Clinton went to Joel Osteen’s church in Houston.
Now, Obama has AFTER twenty years FINALLY quit Trinity United and repudiated Jeremiah Wright.
Back over to Obama to have a presser and do the same repudiation mea culpa to this nutball. Jim Geraghty asks this question:
The question is, do Osteen’s two million weekly viewers and three million book buyers take it personally?
Do the Democrat Superdelegates REALLY think that Barack Obama will be a better candidate to run against Senator John McCain than Hillary Clinton?
Flap thinks this is very wishful thinking and why Hillary will hold on to the Denver Convention, waiting for the next shoe to drop.
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Father Michael Pfleger Hammered by Chicago Cardinal Francis George
Barack Obama Watch: Time to Leave Trinity? The Response
Barack Obama Watch: Time to Leave Trinity?
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Father Michael Pfleger Hammered by Chicago Cardinal Francis George
Pope Benedict XVI addresses the bishops at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on the first full day of his visit to the United States April 16, 2008. At right is Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. At left is the Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
Cardinal Francis George of the Archdiocese of Chicago has HAMMERED Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina’s Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago over his comments at Trinity United Church of Christ this past Sunday.
“The Catholic Church does not endorse political candidates. Consequently, while a priest must speak to political issues that are also moral, he may not endorse candidates nor engage in partisan campaigning.
“Racial issues are both political and moral and are also highly charged. Words can be differently interpreted, but Fr. Pfleger’s remarks about Senator Clinton are both partisan and amount to a personal attack. I regret that deeply.
“To avoid months of turmoil in the church, Fr. Pfleger has promised me that he will not enter into campaigning, will not publicly mention any candidate by name and will abide by the discipline common to all catholic priests.”
The video of Father Pfleger has gone viral on cable television and the internet.
Father Michael Pfleger preaching at Barack Obama’s church, Trinity United, May 25, 2008
The Clinton Campaign had the following response to Father Pfleger.
The Clinton campaign’s communications director, Howard Wolfson, clearly thinks Obama’s rejection of Father Pfleger’s sermon was lacking.
Wolfson says: “Divisive and hateful language like that is totally counterproductive in our efforts to bring our party together and have no place at the pulpit or in our politics. We are disappointed that Senator Obama didn’t specifically reject Father’s Pflegler’s despicable comments about Senator Clinton, and assume he will do so.”
Senator John McCain campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in a media stop when asked about those comments of Father Pfleger said the following:
“…I have known Senator Clinton for a long time. I have always treated her with respect. She is a person that we have very different positions on alot of issues and a philosophy and I respect her. But, that kind of language and that kind of treatment of Senator Clinton is unwarranted, uncalled for and disgraceful.”
This flap with Father Pfleger is NOT going away.
Back over to Obama for a complete repudiation. Another Pastor and another “throw him under the bus.”
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Barack Obama Watch: Time to Leave Trinity? The Response
Barack Obama Watch: Time to Leave Trinity?
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Barack Obama Watch: Time to Leave Trinity? The Response
Father Michael Pfleger preaching at Barack Obama’s church, Trinity United, May 25, 2008
The Obama Campaign has responded to the FLAP of Father Pfleger’s statements while preaching at Trinity United this past Sunday:
“…deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger’s divisive, backward-looking rhetoric.”
What was that rhetoric again:
- I must now to address the one who says, ‘don’t hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.’ But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did! And unless you are ready to give up the benefits — Throw away your 401 fund! [sic] Throw away your trust fund! Throw away all the money that been put away in the company you walked into ’cause your daddy and your granddaddy and your great grandaddy —(screaming at the top of his lungs)Unless you are willing to give up the benefits, then you must be responsible for what was done in your generation! ‘Cause you are the beneficiary of this insurance policy!
- [garbled] expose white entitlement. And supremacy, wherever it raises its head. I said before, I really don’t want to make this political, because you know I’m really very unpolitical.When Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really don’t believe it was put on. I really believe that she just always thought, ‘this is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white, and this is mine. I just gotta get up and step into the plate.’Then out of nowhere, ‘I’m Barack Obama!’Imitating Hillary’s response, screaming at the top of his lungs again, he continues, ‘Ah, damn! Where did you come from? I’m white! I’m entitled! There’s a black man stealing my show!’(mocks crying)She wasn’t the only one crying, there was a whole lot of white people crying!
I’m sorry. I don’t want in any more trouble. The live-streaming just went out again.â€
Father Michael Pfleger who had been a member of the Obama campaign’s advisory board, Catholics for Obama until a few weeks ago responded as well:
“I regret the words I chose on Sunday. These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama’s life message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Obama or anyone else who saw them.”
Barack Obama has been a member of Trinty United Church of Christ for over twenty years. It is a black liberation theology church. Look at the members of the congregation gleefully celebrating Father Pfleger’s hateful comments. Why does Obama and his family continue to have membership at and attend this place? What kind of man goes to a church where these outlandish and outrageous statements are made? Does this NOT say something about Obama’s character?
In his “A More Perfect Union Speech” Obama said the following:
I can no more disown him (jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.
Now, Senator is Father Pfleger whom you have known for years in Chicago part of this community with which you associate and refuse to disown?
Senator, didn’t the Obama campaign transport Father Pfleger down to Iowa to campaign for you and isn’t Father Pfleger an active part of your campaign for President?
Most importantly does anyone see a pattern here?
Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger, Trinity United Church of Christ, black liberation theology.
How many times will Obama have to apologize for what is being done and said in a church that he has refused to disown and that he continues to be a part?
As Flap said before this is GOP cannon fodder for the summer and fall television ads – if not by McCain, then by the 527’s. And, wait until Jeremiah Wright surfaces again.
Stay tuned…….
Michael Ramirez on Reverend Jeremiah Wright
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Barack Obama Watch: Time to Leave Trinity?
Father Michael Pfleger preaching at Barack Obama’s church, Trinity United
Another Pastor problem for Barack Obama.
- I must now to address the one who says, ‘don’t hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.’ But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did! And unless you are ready to give up the benefits — Throw away your 401 fund! [sic] Throw away your trust fund! Throw away all the money that been put away in the company you walked into ’cause your daddy and your granddaddy and your great grandaddy —
(screaming at the top of his lungs)
Unless you are willing to give up the benefits, then you must be responsible for what was done in your generation! ‘Cause you are the beneficiary of this insurance policy!
- [garbled] expose white entitlement. And supremacy, wherever it raises its head. I said before, I really don’t want to make this political, because you know I’m really very unpolitical.
When Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really don’t believe it was put on. I really believe that she just always thought, ‘this is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white, and this is mine. I just gotta get up and step into the plate.’
Then out of nowhere, ‘I’m Barack Obama!’
Imitating Hillary’s response, screaming at the top of his lungs again, he continues, ‘Ah, damn! Where did you come from? I’m white! I’m entitled! There’s a black man stealing my show!’
(mocks crying)
She wasn’t the only one crying, there was a whole lot of white people crying!
I’m sorry. I don’t want in any more trouble. The live-streaming just went out again.”
More television spot fodder for McCain, the 527’s and the GOP.
Now will Barack Obama repudiate his church of over twenty years and Michael Pfleger too?
Over to Obama……
- I must now to address the one who says, ‘don’t hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.’ But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did! And unless you are ready to give up the benefits — Throw away your 401 fund! [sic] Throw away your trust fund! Throw away all the money that been put away in the company you walked into ’cause your daddy and your granddaddy and your great grandaddy —