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An exclusive with Fr. Michael Pfleger

Kevin Eckstrom

RNS columnist Cathleen Falsani, who moonlights by day as a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, had an exclusive sit-down with Fr. Michael Pfleger, the South Side Chicago priest who mocked Hillary Clinton for thinking a “black guy was trying to steal my show.”

“Pfleger’s about as cowed as I’ve ever seen him. He’s reeling, really, from what he admits is a difficult predicament of his own making. Over the weekend, he said that the days since his Trinity address had been the most difficult of his life, even more painful than when his foster son Jarvis was gunned down near St. Sabina on May 30, 1998.”

The column-well worth a read-can be found here.


And in case you haven’t seen it, the video in question:

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