{"id":362,"date":"2008-06-03T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T23:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=362"},"modified":"2008-06-03T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T23:41:07","slug":"cardinal-donald-trump-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Donald Trump Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/lifestyles\/religion\/985091,pfleger060308.article\" target=\"_blank\">&quot;You&#8217;re fired.&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The firebrand pastor of St. Sabina parish was removed from his duties there Tuesday, according to a statement released by the Archdiocese of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, Cardinal Francis George says he asked the Rev. Michael Pfleger, 59, to &quot;take leave for a couple of weeks from his pastoral duties.&quot; The statement said Pfleger &quot;does not believe this to be the right step at this time.&quot; &quot;While respecting his disagreement, I have nevertheless asked him to use this opportunity to reflect on his recent statements and actions in the light of the Church&#8217;s regulations for all Catholic priests,&quot; George said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Are we to take it that this is the very first time Rev. Pfleger has spewed this kind of vitriol?&#160; Kinda&#8217; doubt it.&#160; Just like Obama&#8217;s recent leaving of Trinity UCC, this seems more like a case of being unable to avoid ignoring the issue once it hit the national stage.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>What a hassle, those internets.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Rev. Michael Pfleger,Barack Obama,Cardinal Francis George,Catholicism,St. Sabina[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;You&#8217;re fired.&quot; The firebrand pastor of St. Sabina parish was removed from his duties there Tuesday, according to a statement released by the Archdiocese of Chicago. In the statement, Cardinal Francis George says he asked the Rev. Michael Pfleger, 59, to &quot;take leave for a couple of weeks from his pastoral duties.&quot; The statement said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,27,9,26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-christianity","category-democrats","category-doug","category-politics","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}