[Peace-discuss] Catholics oppose public Catholic funeral forarch-heretic Kennedy.

[Wendy Edwards]

St. Mary's, which volunteered to house the members of tent city, is
Catholic, and Fr. Tom Royer obviously is as well.  The Catholic Church is a
big tent, and some of its members have been more impressive than others.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:57 PM, unionyes <unionyes at ameritech.net> wrote:

>  Not to mention the Inquesition and the suppresion of the Gaelic
> traditions of Ireland and other cultures / countries via imperialism !
>
> On the other hand, there seems to be a parallel culture in the catholic
> church that ; fought for civil rights, the rights of workers to organize
> into Unions, Dorathy Day and the Catholic Worker House Movement, liberation
> theology, and the Marry Knoll order / SOA WATCH ( School of the America's
> Watch ) and their brave and persistent civil disobeideance that I had the
> pleasure to witness first hand in Washington D.C. in the spring of 2001,
> when I was a guest at their Mary Knoll Order House as a rank and file
> Carpenter battling corporate unionism, and participated in their march
> around the Pentagon ( " PRESENTE " - reading the names of the Latin American
> victims of the torture school of the school of the Americas... chilling and
> inspiring  )  and then subsequent civil disobeidience actions in which
> dozens were arrested. Spilling their own blood ( that they drained from
> themselves the day before ) and blocking access to the Pentegon bldg.
> Some of the bravest and most principled activists I have ever met !
> Including Father Roy Bourgoise and Father " Pancho ", who was a priest born
> and raised in Kentucky and spent most of his adult life in Bolivia until he
> had to leave the country due to death threats because he started a
> cooperative bank for peasant campesino farmers with low interest loans ( 1%
> on average ), that cut into the loan sharking business of the wife of the
> local Bolivian military commander who was charging 20 % + interest.
> When the Bolivian military commander issued the death threats to Father
> Pancho and said he had 24-hours to leave the country, Father pancho asked
> why, at which point the military commander stated that Father Pancho was a "
> Communist ".
> When Father Pancho denied he was a Communist and that he was only trying to
> help the " common man ", the military commander stated ; " If you support
> the common man, you are a Communist " !
>
> When I met Father Pancho at the Mary Knoll House in D.C., I thought he was
> the caretaker / janitor because he dressed and acted so humbly and was so
> working class.
>
> So it's a mixed bag, much like the history of the U.S..
>
> David J.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com>
> *To:* John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net> ; E. Wayne Johnson<ewj at pigs.ag>
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:40 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] Catholics oppose public Catholic funeral
> forarch-heretic Kennedy.
>
> An organization that sanctified the slave trade for centuries, collaborated
> with the Nazis during World War II, has helped to foment an AIDS/HIV
> epidemic in Africa by not not sanctioning condoms as they are 'science'
> preventing God's work, allowed decades of paedophilia and kept priests from
> the legal ramifications of their horrific crimes, et al., really doesn't
> have much of a moral high ground to throw stones at anybody.
>
>  Solidarity,
>   -N.
>
> Neil Parthun
>   IEA Region 9 Grassroots Political Activist
>   Writer/Facilitator for Champaign-Urbana Public i
>
> "Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better
> make some noise." - Malcolm X
>
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