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Related: About this forumBad News: Priest Throws Mourning Family out of Funeral Service
Video at the link. Oh, yeah. It was a black family. Time to switch churches, I guess...
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/watch-raging-maryland-priest-boots-grieving-black-family-funeral-chalice-mishap-calls-cops/
The Archdiocese of Washington was forced to issued an apology after a raging priest kicked a mourning family our of his church during a funeral and then proceeded to call the cops on them.
According to Fox5, the altercation happened at Saint Marys Catholic Church in Charlotte Hall, Maryland on Tuesday, when Reverend Michael Briese blew up at the family.
As hundreds of people mourned the death of 54-year-old Agnes Hicks, someone knocked over and damaged the churchs sacred golden chalice when they went in for a hug near the altar.
Thats when all hell broke loose. He literally got on the mic and said, There will be no funeral, there will be no mass, everyone get the hell out of my church, recalled Shanice Chisely, the daughter of Hicks. He disrespected our family, he disrespected my mother. He called my mother a thing. He said, Get this thing out of my church! Everyone get the hell out of my church! It was very sad. Ive never seen anything like that before.
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)he defrocked immediately.
Girard442
(6,059 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,159 posts)It is totally in line with my expectations anyway
sinkingfeeling
(51,275 posts)MineralMan
(146,190 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)you are supposed there to spiritually watch over.
Smells kind of like idolatry.
MineralMan
(146,190 posts)important than taking care of the ceremonies. Sad.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)There's a lot of chanting and various "sacred" objects used in the rituals all intended to provide a veil of legitimacy to what is essentially begging favor from a zombie.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)The pastor kept his toungues speakers and trance dancers up front with him. Had their own reserved section for the truly fanatic.
No ritual items but plenty of chanting babbling singing and dancing around. Not for a moment do I believe they did it for Christ, they did for the Pastor.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)you have the snake handlers, christian scientists and the like where they place their health and their very lives at stake.
Same kind of testing your faith.....I seem to remember that Christ warned against testing God.
More cherry picking.
I always wonder though if they have a stash of antivenin in the altar...
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Cartoonist
(7,297 posts)The Archdiocese of Washington was forced to issue an apology
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Is there a story there?
Was the priest forced to do anything other than say a few Hail Marys?
edhopper
(33,188 posts)The vessel with the pestle
or the flagon with the dragon?
elleng
(130,126 posts)Glad my family doesn't attend that church, tho it's near their home.
DOUBLE damn, just checked, he was among the several priests I discussed presiding over my husband's burial service ## years ago. Glad he wasn't available.
MineralMan
(146,190 posts)I don't know why I suspect that...
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Because racist people tend to fly off the handle at the slightest little infraction, like standing in an upright position at a Starbucks, dozing off in your university library, or barbequing at a public barbeque.
elleng
(130,126 posts)in this diverse neighborhood and state.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)The parishioners have been nothing but the means to the gold for two millennia now. Their only value is their ability to produce more gold, but the gold was always the important part.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Seems he cares far more for a ritual chalice than grieving loved ones. He should be ashamed of himself for reacting that way. It was an accident, not like they were playing football with it.