Chicago Daily Observer

In the Jesuit “America” magazine blog, Tom Beaudoin tells us that Fr. Pfleger (and Rev Wrights) “sermons in question were written and performed for a “local,” not “global,” audience. They are performances—of defiance, passion, exhortation, meditation”. Not racist, sacreligious, hateful, spiteful, menacing or any of 100 other accurate condemnations, rather a lively discussion, appropriate to context.

Fr. Pfleger plays the victim on St. Sabina’s website (though he certainly was the assailant) stating
“Hate me if you will. Hate my imperfect presentation. Hate my imperfect dramatization. Hate my imperfect articulation. I have never presumed to be anything but imperfect, but I pray I can still beat the drum of justice, even if sometimes I am off beat”, which is an odd way of apologizing by accusing anyone who might question Fr. Pfleger’s bizzare buffoonery of “hate”. Beating up on a recently rather hapless Park Ridge woman from the ... Read More...

Where is the “Why”? Pick up a newspaper today and you’ll read about plant closings in small towns, businesses leaving big cities, and people out of work. It’s happening so often in Illinois, and so many businesses have closed or left the state, that you could correctly declare our state an economic disaster. But why?
Each time a closing is announced, newspapers interview the newly out-of-work employees. The articles give plenty of ink for the unemployed to voice their disappointment with and anger at the companies where they’ve labored for decades. The workers say they feel betrayed by the very companies where they dedicated their lives. It all makes for compelling reading. It tugs at the heartstrings. It shows the angst of the idled workers who are trying to feed their families while trying to find work. But in article after article there’s not a word as to “why” ... Read More...