Just days after Cardinal George awarded him a lifetime achievement award, the Rev. Michael Pfleger has been caught on tape openly dissenting and teaching heresy from the pulpit during mass!
In this stunning video from a Divine Mercy Sunday homily, Fr. Pfleger openly calls for female ordination and female bishops.
Pfleger says…
“That’s why there should be woman priests, that’s why there should be married priests, that’s why there should be woman Bishops and women Cardinals”
There is a good poke in the eye for Cardinal George. The Cardinal was already facing criticism for honoring Fr. Pfleger and Pfleger returned the favor by open dissent.
Cardinal George cannot let this stand, especially after just conferring an award. Pfleger must be disciplined and forced to retract his statements or immeasurable harm will be done to the faith. If Pfleger teaching this heresy goes unchallenged by the Cardinal, people will rightly conclude that the Cardinal supports these views, after all he did just give him an award.
Pfire Pfleger, now.
A big ht to Pewsitter for the Vid
April 14, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Thanks, Anonymous. I made a call and followed up with an email this morning. The Cardinal is "not in today".
April 14, 2010 at 7:24 pm
I contacted the Cardinal's office today and received a reply that they had already been informed about it yesterday.
April 14, 2010 at 7:26 pm
I had the chance once to hear Cardinal George speak on the Fr. Pfleger situation and indeed, schism is something that he is VERY concerned about. He truly feels that he will have to answer to God if Fr. Fleger's flock leaves the Church. Of course, based on what Fr. Pfleger is saying and doing, the Cardinal may have to answer to God if he allows his flock to stay in the Church.
April 14, 2010 at 7:55 pm
"His response was swift. The heretic priest was sent to a very, very remote location in Korea."
Being sent to a very remote location was a huge humiliation for this priest. He was removed from a parish of military families and placed in a camp with no nonsense Marines. From what I've heard, from a Navy chaplain friend of ours, Marines do not put up with any monkey business. IMHO, this particular military chaplain was sent a clear message by Archbishop O'Brien. I would think it was more miserable for the priest than it was for the Marines he ended up serving.
April 14, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Anonymous – he will have to answer to God regardless of what he does. If he behaved like a bishop should, he wouldn't have had to worry.
April 14, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Cardinal George isn't going to touch Rev. Phleger at all. He hasn't in all the years he has been head of the Chicago archdiocese, and with retirement looming, where would it get him? The reverend is the reverend. Besides, Mike HAS done decent work in ministry and truly has his parish at heart…one can't overlook that fact.
April 14, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Love the Flintstones altar.
April 14, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Mike HAS done decent work in ministry and truly has his parish at heart…one can't overlook that fact.
Fr Pfleger was not ordained to be a social worker; he could do that work without being ordained as a priest.
The Catholic Church invented helping the poor and downtrodden. It's not a matter of social justice or being Faithful to the teaching of the Church it's both and.
April 15, 2010 at 12:40 am
"Mike HAS done decent work in ministry and truly has his parish at heart…one can't overlook that fact".
It's also not social justice for "Mike" to isolate his flock into an island of racial self-pity and permanent victimhood for the purpose of self-promotion and cheap theatrics. Father Pfleger has caused much more damage to his flock than anyone will ever imagine. He's a walking disaster. Mussolini made the trains run on time and had Italy at heart.
April 15, 2010 at 12:43 am
As a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, I am sickened and disgusted that Fr. Pfleger was given a "lifetime achievement award" by the Cardinal. The damage done to the loyal priests of the archdiocese in incalculable. Fr. Pfleger has clearly shown that he is a race baiter and a heretic. It seems the only act that will get a priest sanctioned here in Chicago is being too orthodox. Cardinal George is a good man but seems entirely in over his head in dealing with personnel problems like Pfleger and, by the way, Sister Anita Baird, the woman who heads the useless and damaging Office for Social Justice, who apparently was behing this award to Pfleger. Baird should have been fired for this, especially after she stated that President Obama is not pro-abortion, but pro-choice, and that there is a difference. Her apology, written by the Cardinal, is not enough.
Pray for Cardinal George. He is a prisoner in his own chancery.
April 15, 2010 at 1:28 am
This congregation is actually already in schism, even if unofficial. If this priest has threatened to start his own church, so be it: he is not acting as a Catholic priest. Like the founder of Life Teen and others who went off and started their own churches, they had already left the Catholic Faith for all intents and purposes years ago but continued to lead others astray with the 'blessing' of 'the church'. At least if he goes off on his own, the damange will be more limited.
Many bishops kept silent about rapist priests too'for the good of the church' and how well did that turn out? Who is caring for souls?
April 15, 2010 at 1:53 am
Hierarchs have been rewarding dissent for the past 40 years or so. Doesn't look like it's about to change soon. 🙁
April 15, 2010 at 1:55 am
Anonymous – I sincerely doubt Pfleger has his parish at heart. He has his OWN vision of what these people should be based on his own version of reality, and Catholic does not enter into it.
April 15, 2010 at 1:56 am
This is SOOOO STUPID. Everybody know's women are second class citizen. They can NEVER become Priests or Bishops. Just read your bible.
First Corinthians 14: 34-35
"Let your WOMEN keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to SPEAK; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a SHAME for women to SPEAK in the CHURCH."
Ephesians 5: 22-24
"Wives, SUBMIT yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the WIVES be to their own HUSBANDS in EVERY THING."
First Timothy 2: 11-14
"Let the WOMAN LEARN in SILENCE with all SUBJECTION. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was NOT deceived, but the WOMAN being deceived was in the TRANSGRESSION."
April 15, 2010 at 1:57 am
Hey, here's a novel thought: maybe Cardinal George likes this stuff? Enjoys it. Thinks it's swell. He's not uninformed, or "over his head" or "a prisioner in his own chancery" or a victim of "Stockholm syndrome," (that was a funny one). You guys are endlessly creative.
A Cardinal could never be evil, could he, or an enemy of the Body of Christ? Seems the simplest explanation to me, rather than conclude that his ordination is some sort of magic spell against being just plain evil, and any evidence to the contrary is yet another fine opportunity for some hilarious creative writing.
Maybe his REAL brain is being kept in a vat in another galaxy, while his alien symbiote runs the Archdiocese!
April 15, 2010 at 2:47 am
Hank, stop chopping the Bible up into sound bites. You might as well be saying that sons are then 'third class' because the Lord confirms 'a mother's authority over her sons', or that Jesus is looking to break up families because "If anyone… does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children… he cannot be my disciple."
Take it in its entirety and in its real meaning. Men and women are not interchangeable, just as the hand and the mouth are not interchangeable. But they are all part of One Body, and no part can make do without the others.
I guess the veneration of Mary, as 'our tainted nature's solitary boast' means nothing.
April 15, 2010 at 4:29 am
Vince – it would appear "Hank" has a bit of a sexual identity crisis, since "he" just posted the same info under the name "Helen" on the "Atheist Idiots Want to Arrest the Pope" thread. I certainly wouldn't spend too much time on him/her.
April 15, 2010 at 7:30 am
Pflegers next request will be for the sacrament of sodomy
April 15, 2010 at 2:18 pm
He preaches exactly like a Pentecostal.
April 15, 2010 at 2:46 pm
The archdiocese has an "apology" from Fr. Pflegler online.