Father Fagler Returning To His Pulpit Next Week - With Video
And there he was, spewing his nasty hatred disguised as ministry, spewing white guilt and racism and all the while hypocrisy drip, drip, dripped from his shiny white teeth…
Oh! He got up screaming at the Cardinal “I’m a Priest! I’m entitled!”…
CHICAGO ― Father Michael Pfleger will return to the pulpit at St. Sabina Catholic Church on June 16, after Cardinal Francis George forced him to take a leave of absence over controversial comments about U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Pfleger created an uproar last month when he delivered a sermon at Trinity United Church Of Christ and mocked Clinton’s tears on the campaign trail.
George forced Pfleger to temporarily step down this week to reflect on those comments.
“I have asked Father Michael Pfleger, Pastor of St. Sabina’s Parish, to step back from his obligations there,” the cardinal said in a statement on Tuesday, “and take leave for a couple of weeks from his pastoral duties.”
Parishioners said Sunday morning that they have been told Pfleger will return to the church on June 16 on the grounds that he can not discuss politics.
But the Archdiocese of Chicago couldn’t confirm Pfleger’s return and a spokeswoman says Cardinal Francis George hasn’t issued any new statement on the matter.
The Cardinal met with parishoners of St. Sabina on Thursday to discuss the suspension, but neither the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago nor the congregation discussed that meeting until Sunday morning.
The church was demanding Pfleger’s reinstatement, arguing all the good he was doing at Saint Sabina far outweighed what he said one Sunday at Trinity United Church of Christ.
They wanted him back to preside over graduations and weddings. His absence, they said, would punish them as much as it would him.
Pfleger has been pastor of the predominantly African-American St. Sabina parish, at 1210 W. 78th St., since 1981. He has gained notoriety for his political activism on behalf of gun control, racial and social equality, and intervention against youth violence.
On May 25, Pfleger was a guest preacher at the Trinity United Church of Christ, of which Sen. Obama was a member for two decades. In his sermon, he mocked Clinton and the emotion she showed before the New Hampshire primary.
“I really don’t believe it was put on. I always thought she felt ‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate,’” he said. “And then out of nowhere came, ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said, ‘Oh damn, where did you come from? I’m white. I’m entitled. There’s a black man stealing my show.’”
Pfleger then pretended to cry in a dramatization that included a handkerchief.
“She wasn’t the only one crying. There was a whole lot of white people crying,” he said.
Pfleger later apologized for his comments. “I apologize for anyone who was offended and thought it to be mockery. that was neither my intent nor was it my heart.”
But the controversy prompted U.S. Sen. Barack Obama to cut ties with Trinity, where he had been a member for more than 20 years.
Previously, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the former longtime pastor at Trinity, drew fire for controversial remarks which infuriated Obama.
Wright has said the U.S. government may have developed the AIDS virus to infect blacks and that the U.S. invited the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Obama has denounced the remarks.
(CBS)
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Yet another reason for internment camps…can this dumbass be thrown in for enjoying and benefiting from Nazi Germany?
June 8th, 2008 at 12:44 pmAnother American Cardinal with no balls. Duh.
Off topic… be sure and stop by The Obamanation blog and let yourself be heard there as well. Some pretty rank shit goes down…..
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stevelin022141/gG5BzX/commentary
June 8th, 2008 at 1:00 pmthis guy is a disgrace. people dont go to these types of meetings for church. maybe it makes them feel better hearing this guy dog the white race all the time. Hypocrisy at its finest.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:36 pmYeah Sully, rank shit is correct. Little Green Footballs has been all over this today.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:40 pmIt’s been said that the road to Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops. Pray that the good cardnal regains his sanity.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:47 pmI started following the crap on Barry’s site again when I learned that puke Felsen from ‘The Socialist Viewpoint’ ran the blog for Barry.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:00 pmI just keep looking for our National Conversation On Race(tm) Barry promised us myself.
Looks like LGF found it….