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• Cardinal Francis George Asked a Chicago Priest On Tuesday To...[Derived Headline]

CHICAGO | Cardinal Francis George asked a Chicago priest on Tuesday to temporarily step down from his post to "reflect on his recent statements" regarding Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her bid for the White House. Last week, the Rev. Michael Pfleger mocked Clinton at Sen. Barack Obama's former church, saying the New York senator felt "entitled" to the Democratic nomination for president.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• June 10, 2008

• Kathleen Eaton of Birth Choice Health Clinics of Santa Ana Joins President Bush and Cardinal Francis George as a 2010 Legatus Pro-life Award Recipient.

Dana Point, Calif., Resident and Founder of Growing Pro-life Organization Honored Today for a Lifetime of Pro-life Service, Including Birth Choice's R...

• Business Wire
• February 05, 2010

• Holy Week

Six members of the anti-war group "Catholic Schoolgirls Against The War" staged a dramatic die-in during the 11 a.m. Easter mass at Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago's most prominent Catholic parish - and the home of one of the nation's most conservative church leaders, Cardinal Francis George. The protesters also denounced Cardinal George's January 7 meeting with Mayor Daley and President Bush, adding to public criticism of both leaders for failing to publicly raise the issue of the war and the need to end it during the presidential visit to Chicago. (That official visit was capped by the arrest of four people who tried in vain to stop the departing motorcade with a large neon-green "No to War and Occupation - Troops Home Now!" banner.) The sixth commandment says 'Thou shall not kill,'" sa...

• Nuclear Resister
• Nbr. 148, April 2008

• Bishop Steib Cited As Great Preacher

Catholic Bishop J. Terry Steib of Memphis will receive the 2012 Great Preacher Award from the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis. Steib, who has led the Catholic Diocese of Memphis since 1993, will join a list of previous winners that includes Francis Cardinal George and Joseph Cardinal Bernardin.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• August 06, 2012

• Cardinal Defends Kkk, Gay Rights Remarkchicago's George at Odds with Group Over Parade Plan

CHICAGO - Setting off a new round in his dispute with gay rights activists, Chicago's Cardinal Francis George has issued a statement defending his recent comparison of the gay rights movement to the Ku Klux Klan. George's initial comments came in connection with a controversy over whether next summer's gay pride parade would interrupt morning services at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• January 17, 2012

• Activist Priest Reinstated

CHICAGO - An to his Chicago church apologized to congregants and thanked the Archdiocese of Chicago during Sunday services, his first since a suspension last month. The Rev. Michael Pfleger was suspended April 27 after saying during a radio interview that he would leave rather than be removed from St. Sabina Catholic Church, where he has been a priest for decades. In suspending Pfleger, Cardinal Francis George said if that was Pfleger's attitude, he had already left the Catholic Church and therefore was "not able to pastor a Catholic parish.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• May 26, 2011

• Lds, Catholics Must Defend Religious Freedom, Cardinal Says at Byu

PROVO -- The fight to defend moral principles is linking Mormons and Catholics like never before. In recent years, Catholics and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have stood more frequently side by side in the public square to defend human life and dignity," Cardinal Francis George told nearly 12,000 students, faculty and community members gathered Tuesday at BYU.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• February 24, 2010

• Quinn: Cardinal George, Bishops 'Made a Mistake' On Choice Award

CHICAGO - Gov. Pat Quinn said Monday that Cardinal Francis George and several Catholic bishops made a mistake when they criticized him for agreeing to present an award at a ceremony hosted by an abortion-rights organization. Quinn is to present rape victim and counselor Jennie Goodman with an award at a Nov. 17 luncheon hosted by Personal PAC, which aims to elect abortion rights candidates. On Sunday, George told the Chicago Tribune that he and the bishops didn't know Quinn was to give Goodman the award. The cardinal and bishops, through the Catholic Conference of Illinois, issued a statement last week saying Quinn was rewarding those who support "the legal right to kill children in their mothers' wombs.

• Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
• May 11, 2012

• Reforming the Reform

Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, vice president of the USCCB and U.S. representative to the International Committee on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), agreed. Kevin Eckstrom covers Catholicism for Religion News Service in Washington.

• Commonweal
• August 06, 2009

• Religion Brief

Archbishop to visit Cardinal Francis George, archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, will be the homilist at 9 a.m. Sept. 22 at St. Luke Union Church, 2101 E. Washington St., Bloomington, during the Illinois Conference of Churches Annual Assembly.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• October 03, 2011