Taunts, Shouts, Stage Blood at Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago
A group of six anti-war protesters interrupted an Easter Sunday Mass in Chicago yesterday morning. Stunning parishioners during Cardinal Francis George’s homily they went up and down the aisle of the auditorium at Holy Name Cathedral (undergoing repairs) shouting and squirting stage blood on the congregation. The six were arrested following an angry confrontation with parishioners in the entryway.
Chicago Tribune article.
David Bennett
Jennifer
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Fr. J.
Chad Toney
Jorge Flores
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carmelbennett
nicenehobbit
Jason S
jaybird68
papaz
March 25, 2008 at 3:26 am
See, Father J, there ARE still stupid people in the world. You wouldn’t believe me but I told you…
March 25, 2008 at 3:41 am
simple sinner that I am, if they pulled that at my church it would be hard to restrain myself from assisting them in getting some REAL blood on themselves.
The fact that they chose this venue is odd to me.
March 25, 2008 at 3:43 am
I HATE when people do such atrocious things!!!
A similar thing happened in Mexico City in November of last year (2007): http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/20/america/LA-GEN-Mexico-Leftist-Protest.php
Here’s a video in Spanish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTeAhrDgbkk&feature=related
March 25, 2008 at 3:52 am
–The fact that they chose this venue is odd to me.–
From the news article:
“In a statement issued Sunday afternoon by Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War, the group said it protested at Holy Name “to reach both Holy Name’s large Easter audience—including Chicago’s most prominent Catholic citizens, who commonly attend Easter mass at the church—and the many more viewers and readers of the local press, which usually extensively covers their services.”
March 25, 2008 at 4:00 am
And here I thought that liturgical dancers were disruptive to Mass!
March 25, 2008 at 1:01 pm
too bad our secular arm isn’t interested in taking care of such people:)
March 25, 2008 at 4:35 pm
At least every time this stuff happens, these guys hurt their cause. As long as the far-left keeps using histrionic tactics, conservatives will continue to gain influence.
March 25, 2008 at 7:45 pm
It has been years now that freaky youth have been attacking G-8 Conferences with water canon and tear gas replies. And, I have never heard or read a single coherent explanation of what they are protesting.
As you say, David, these histrionics dont pan out for them.
March 26, 2008 at 2:27 am
The far-left loonies (Greenpeace, Code Pink, etc.) share the same immaturity and hatred with their ideological counterparts on the far-right (those who justify the murder of doctors who perform abortions and the God hates fags crowd).
The absence of reason obscures right-thinking (logic) and invites all kinds of lunacy, throws balance on it’s head and knows nothing whatsoever of charity. Both sides in their extremes, whatever their initial good intentions, often, as in this case, drift into neurosis.
March 26, 2008 at 2:34 am
Very well put thepoliticalpost!
March 26, 2008 at 3:06 am
Well put indeed!
Such folks are what I call idealogues. When you reach the point where you won’t discuss or explain your point and are so confident you are right without examining why or considering how to convince people, you are going to run into problems!
Given how the Vatican - and some of our bishops in the US like Romanian Greek Catholic +JOHN (Botean) of Canton - have urged against war and begged for peace, it is truly bizarre and ironic that they would target Catholics for a demonstration. To be crude, why piss off your own friends?
March 27, 2008 at 12:46 am
Anything for a photo op.
March 27, 2008 at 1:27 am
And what a fiiiiiiiiiiiine lookin’ photo it turned out to be!
April 14, 2008 at 3:45 am
If Catholics and the Pope really are against the war, if they really are Christians, then they all can demonstrate this claim by getting out on the streets and protesting until this illegal and illicit regime in the U.S. is changed. The Catholic church can show its commitment to peace by urging its members to protest actively, it can support their protests, it can publish and widely disseminate the truth.
That it does not do this demonstrates clearly that the Church is as hypocritical and as supportive of Fascism as it was when the Cathars were destroyed, and when it played footsie with Hitler.
Nothing is new under the sun: evil in high places.
April 14, 2008 at 11:22 am
“That it does not do this demonstrates clearly that the Church is as hypocritical and as supportive of Fascism as it was when the Cathars were destroyed, and when it played footsie with Hitler.”
I just can’t get over that you have a blog called “The World for People Who Think”. Be one of them.
http://www.binary.net/polycarp/piusxii.html
http://www.chivalricorders.org/vatican/piusXII.htm
http://www.catholic.com/library/HOW_Pius_XII_PROTECTED_JEWS
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=105596
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods48.html
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/55/story_5520_1.html
“In his article for the Jewish Post (November 6, 1958) in Winnipeg, Canada, William Zukerman wrote that no other leader “did more to help the Jews in their hour of greatest tragedy, during the Nazi occupation of Europe, than the late pope.”Source
Please forgive if the Pope does not take to the streets wielding a hand-painted protest sign. His message and that of his predacessor was clear, but the pope is not a political activist.
April 14, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Thanks, SS. I saw this earlier when I was on the run. I came very close to just deleting it out of frustration. But, you always have the intelligent response even to the most sub-intelligent comment.