Government Shuts Down Catholic Military Chaplains
October 12, 2013
According to a Fox News story dated October 5, because of the government “shutdown,” the U.S. military “has furloughed as many as 50 Catholic chaplains” and banned them “from celebrating weekend Mass.” They are apparently not even able to offer their services without pay.
Want to hear something even more ridiculous? That Catholic priests would serve as chaplains for the U.S. government’s murder squad in the first place.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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