After signing off on the great
Shutdown Martyrdom and Mass-Acre Event, I was too annoyed to stop and clocked in at
NRO to complain some more, leading to the following sort of amusing exchange:
You guys are not Breitbart or Beck. You knew very well that no such thing would happen, and you certainly know it now that the Washington Post has made it absolutely clear.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/... Yet you leave this idiocy on your website, why?
It happened this weekend in Virginia. Priests were not allowed on base to say mass, not even an open air mass. The priest I know of held a "private" mass at a local, off-base park, attended by almost 300-military parishioners. I have a friend that was at the mass.
I think you are mistaken. Catholic Vote was running a story about this before it was to happen
http://www.catholicvote.org/mi... but updates stopped on Friday. Obviously because the priest in question was un-furloughed. Maybe they held the Mass anyway, but there was no reason for services not to happen on base.
It happened at Ft Storey and also at Little Creek I'm told. Why would they have held a Mass at a park if the Chapel was available to them?
Maybe because they'd been planning it for days? Probably fun--gorgeous weather, perhaps a picnic afterwards! And endless political chat. They could make it a victory rally.
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| And another reminder that there are real Catholics you wouldn't mind knowing; here, the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of Dayton, Ohio, celebrating their 175th anniversary mass and picnic in 2009 and having a lot more fun than those wingnuts at Quantico. |
