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 Pentagon Aims To Recruit More Chaplains Author: John Lasker Source: The Buffalo News Title: PENTAGON AIMS TO RECRUIT MORE CHAPLAINS For much of the previous year, the Rev. Joe Porpiglia had a grueling routine— and he wasn’t even running his parish of St. Benedict’s in Eggertsville. The native of Dunkirk was in Afghanistan as a U. S. chaplain, racing across a rugged and war-torn landscape in massive helicopters and transport planes, celebrating Mass and bringing the sacraments to thousands of soldiers, but also offering counsel and comfort to anyone who sought him out. What makes Porpiglia’s tour stand out is he was just one of eight to 10 Catholic chaplains in Afghanistan during the last 18 months. That hardly meets the needs of the huge population of Catholics serving in the U. S. military. Today’s numbers have led the Pentagon to initiate an aggressive campaign to recruit Catholic priests to serve as chaplains. | |
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| Stand Up For The Underdog? | Nov 10th. at 9:26:55 am EST |
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me In the long history of the Church, it has seldom done- anything- for the underdog that did not benefit itself somehow. There was so much it could have done, given its power and prestige. It was some individuals within the church who may have risked and done things that helped others, but that was because they were in the trenches doing their duty, and were often censured by higher ups because they had more regard for the underdog- and less regard for church policies which the Vatican deemed more important. |
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web ***Capt. Rev. Gregory Caiazzo is a recruitment officer and spokesman for the U. S. Navy’s Chief of Chaplains office, which oversees all chaplains for the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. U. S. Catholic chaplains, he said, believe in the same principles as the warriors they serve, principles the Catholic Church always has embraced: Protect freedoms, stand up for the underdog and fend off those who have nothing to offer but oppression, struggle and violence. *** "Stand up for the underdog?" Umm...then support Pagan chaplains and tell the xian chaplains to stop preaching on the job.. |
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