Priest defies Cardinal Cupich, burns LGBTQ flag on church grounds

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Priest defies Cardinal Cupich, burns LGBTQ flag on church grounds

"What have we done wrong other than destroy a piece of propaganda?" Rev. Paul Kalchik said after burning a rainbow flag that once hung at his church.
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ByMitchell Armentrout

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A North Side priest who says he “can’t sit well” with Cardinal Blase Cupich burned a gay-friendly flag outside his Avondale church last week — against the wishes of the cardinal he claims is trying to minimize the clergy sex-abuse crisis.

Rev. Paul Kalchik says the banner, featuring a cross superimposed over a rainbow, had been featured prominently in the sanctuary at Resurrection Catholic Church but had been taken down and was forgotten in storage at the parish at 3043 N. Francisco for more than a decade.

Kalchik led seven parishioners in a prayer of exorcism Friday, and the flag was burned inside a portable fire pit placed the schoolyard next to the church. The ashes of the flag now rest in a church compost heap.
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The bottom line is that this priest was told by his Bishop not to make a public spectacle of himself or the Church.

The priest chose to disobey the wishes of his Bishop.

This must not be allowed to stand, because then any priest, on either side of the divide, will now think they have liscense to disobey their Bishops becasue “they know better.”
 
I thought twice about posting this… but I read the article and it seems pretty explanatory and informative.
 
This kind of action is far more likely to happen under this Archbishop than under Cardinal George. You might say, more likely under this Pope than under Benedict.
 
Pope Benedict, and Cardinal George, had a way of bringing together people tempted to drift to either extreme. People had I am sure angry outbursts, in private, but kept speaking to each other.

Now in Rome, people get purged and go off into noisy exile. Papal aides become loose cannons for the Left.
Maybe the nightmare will now play out in Chicago.
 
There was another version of this story posted awhile ago that said that a small group of parishoners burned the flag privately, which seems to me what was done here, not a public burning as was previously announced.

The priest should probably not have participated either way in the burning given that he had direct orders to the contrary and should have had the parishoners burn it on their own off of parish grounds. But Cdl. Cupich is probably partially to blame for incidents like this given that he is subtly trying to push a homosexual agenda in his archdiocese and in the Catholic Church in general. Lay people and clergy are going to strike out in extreme gestures like this in order to try to shift the momentum back towards orthodoxy when the balance has gone too far in the other direction.
 
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Could it be that the Vatican is trying to get everything all together and figure out how the ball got dropped?

Pope Francis had nothing to do with McCarrick being promoted. The blame for McCarrick is squarely on the shoulders of Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

I don’t blame Francis one bit for making sure he has all the information he needs before making any public comments.
 
There’s more background and context to this story that is being left out. The Church Militant article had some of the info and I did some further research on my own.

It seems that the gay-friendly priest who brought this banner to this church along with the rainbow vestments and such was a good friend of the previous Archbishop/ Cardinal Bernardin and worked for him, as well as being the main pastor to the Dignity USA group in Chicago. That priest was sent to this parish after the church at his previous parish, which had been hosting the Dignity USA people, burned down. This was also around the time when many dioceses were banning the Dignity group from meeting or holding Mass on Church property and it sounded like this previous pastor was hosting their Masses in the basement of the rectory or having them over there, maybe for social gatherings too, and then he died young of a heart attack at age 50.

Sounds like the parish now has some folks who want to “take back their church” and not have it identified so much as being the LGBT church.
 
CilladeRoma said:
The blame for McCarrick is squarely on the shoulders of Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
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Or the bureaucracy. In an organization as vast as the Church, people assume everyone else knows this bit of info, but they may not. (I am Retired from civil service).

I do not think the current Pope has any blame in terms of McCarrick’s restrictions.
 
The problem is Francis brought him back to prominence according to this 2014 article from the Washington Post (which was intended as a positive article at the time).
“I guess the Lord isn’t done with me yet,” he told the pope.

“Or the devil doesn’t have your accommodations ready!” Francis shot back with a laugh.

McCarrick loves to tell that story, because he loves to tell good stories and because he has a sense of humor as keen as the pope’s. But the exchange also says a lot about the improbable renaissance that McCarrick is enjoying as he prepares to celebrate his 84th birthday in July.

McCarrick is one of a number of senior churchmen who were more or less put out to pasture during the eight-year pontificate of Benedict XVI. But now Francis is pope, and prelates like Cardinal Walter Kasper (another old friend of McCarrick’s) and McCarrick himself are back in the mix, and busier than ever.
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Sorry, the buck stops at the top.

I am a manager. If someone under me does something wrong, ultimately, I am responsible.

I would think that in the case of the Pope, the "Supreme ruler and law-giver of the Church, there is nothing that he does not know. And if there is, then we really don’t have a “top-down hierarchy” do we?
 
While I think Cardinal Cupich was right to forbid this event, for a little more context, this priest also wrote an open letter (can also be found on the CM site) to Pope Francis where he described his own experiences being abused by a male neighbor and then again by a priest.
 
I think it’s pretty dishonest to pick and choose which popes are to blame and which ones should be whitewashed depending on whose ideology you happen to agree with the most.

If they ever do an investigation, I seriously doubt anyone would come out smelling like a rose.
 
the banner, featuring a cross superimposed over a rainbow, had been featured prominently in the sanctuary at Resurrection Catholic Church.
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The above statement alone is more than justification for getting rid of that divisive flag out of God’s Sanctuary. What in the world is going on here??? That flag represents those who both support and promote homosexual behavior and that lifestyle. For that flag to be inside of that church is blasphemous. Good on those parishioners for doing the right thing!!!
 
Pope Francis was not involved in anything at the Vatican during the time that the McCarrick thing was going on. John Paul II and Benedict XVI were.
 
“The McCarrick thing”? He was allowed to be active during Francis’ papacy just like the rest of them. Nothing was done by anyone as far as seriously putting the hammer down until his allegations about a minor went public.
 
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What I read in an article was that the priest was told not to do a public burning. So he did a private burning. The priest thought the private burning was not forbidden.

A rainbow flag with a cross is blasphemy. Anyone who doesn’t think it should be burned has lost an appreciation for what is blasphemy and how wrong it is.
 
So now, like in American politics, just an accusation is enough to make some one guilty.

There is more than one issue with McCarrick. The seminary scandal should have been handled long ago, by at least 2 prior Popes.

Francis, the minute he was aware of new allegations that now included minors, seems to have acted very swiftly in taking care of the situation.

However, this is completely off topic. It does, however, show that Church politics, like all politics is more about taking sides and destroying your ememy rather than trying to do any good.
 
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