Priests Stand Tall: Father Pfleger and the Courage of Christian Witness
The Holy Spirit Is a Unifier
The Holy Spirit is a unifier.
Connect to Him and you connect to all who are connected to Him.
Father Pfleger. Just one interview or one article about him, and I waxed lyrical about the man.
I had never heard of him before. I think I wrote a piece titled something like “The Priest Is a Lighthouse” and used his image, which I later replaced with that of my namesake, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
When I later heard Barack Obama refer to him as “a crazy priest,” and the camera panned to him, I smiled and thought with some satisfaction, “That’s my man!”
Placing him beside some of today’s culture-warrior MAGA-Catholic priests is like placing a fountain of living water beside a swamp.
(Harsh? I don't think so!)
The Priest Is a Lighthouse (Not a Memo-Writer for God)
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The Priest Is a LIGHTHOUSE (Not a Memo-Writer for God)
When priests stand tall, the memo writers shrink to size,
those self-appointed scribes who presume to tell God
whom to love and whom to reject.
Discover how true spiritual discernment stands as a shining lighthouse amid the dark sea of “memo writers for God.”
This reflection by Don Kenobi exposes counterfeit inspiration, contrasts it with authentic holiness, and calls readers back to truth, back to integrity, back to genuine Christian witness.
False Faith, True Darkness
Just yesterday, EWTN was lit up in a #MolueMonologue.
You may read it here:
False Faith, True Darkness
https://donkenobi.blogspot.com/2025/12/still-on-armageddon-molue-apocalypse.html
Christians of the Cross are slowly but surely rising up.
Enough seems to be, finally, enough.
A Priest Worth Admiring
Now, there is a priest I stumbled across on social media. I had never heard of him before. But he made me shake my head in admiration and say aloud to no one in particular:
“These are the kinds of priests the early Church Fathers had in mind when they institutionalized this great faith of ours!”
Yes, Christianity was institutionalized.
It did not fall from heaven fully formed, complete with Bibles, thuribles, and canon law.
And if you have read Church history, you will understand why that step, making the Church an institution, was of vital necessity.
The continued existence of Christianity depended on it.
Why the Church Became an Institution
Many have argued: why bother?
After all, Jesus gave us the parable of the wheat and the tares, saying:
“Let them grow together until the day of the harvest.”
And they have a point. Because in weeding, since wheat and tares look so similar, there is always the danger of pulling up some wheat by the roots.
But the truth is this.
In the early centuries of the Common Era (Anno Domini), Christianity was a wild marketplace of writings. A chaotic flood of texts, teachings, gospels, letters, prophecies, visions, and doctrines, some profound, many dubious, others outright dangerous.
This swirling chaos was one of the driving forces behind the councils, beginning with Hippo and later solidified at Trent, where the canonical books of the Bible were formally recognized and set.
Two Points Within the Point, Worth Pondering
1. The Kingdom of God Has Always Suffered Violence
Should I mention that today the same violence often comes at the hands of Magamaniacs, among them self-important priests and media organizations?
Or should I stay quiet, lest this digression obscure the point?
2. Those Who Fold Their Arms at Heresies in the Church
Those who fold their arms at heresies in the Church, masking their lack of fortitude with the tired refrain:
“Let God be the judge. We cannot judge! Perhaps God is using these devious, manifestly anti-fruits-of-the-Spirit personages in ways beyond our ken…”
They forget one thing.
The very Bible in their hands already stands as a witness against them.
Against their lukewarmness.
Against their spiritual lassitude.
Think about it.
No cars. No trains. No planes.
Yet the Fathers of the Church still traveled to far-flung places, even by today’s standards, to sit in council and set forth the boundaries of the faith we now take for granted, or worse, reduce in some sects to a mere business transaction with God.
My Man!
Thank you for reading.
Don Kenobi
03/10/2025
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