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Stop Displaying U.S. Flag on National Shrine

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Katy Zatsick ARCWP
6 years ago

I follow my brother Jesus on the way to Emmaus. Love my neighbor encompasses the world First revelation of God, God's creation and all of humanity. Today especially the peoples and all life of the Amazon.

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Martha Hennessy
6 years ago

Stop the wars, stop the killing. Follow Christ, not the flag.

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Christopher Spicer Hankle
6 years ago

"the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard." Isaiah 59:19 "the standard upon the walls of Babylon" Jeremiah 51:12 "by [her] own standard, throughout their hosts." Numbers 1:52 "a token against the rebels" Numbers 17:10 "the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon [God's] land." Zechariah 9:17 Moses identified the Lord as the banner, as a focal point and hope. Exodus 17

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Mary Yelenick
6 years ago

Our love is not bound, by or confined, to, narrow, arbitrary geographic borders

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Jakob Whitson
6 years ago

This petition is an important way for folks to recognize the contradictions between following God, practicing the Way of Jesus; or.. following the way of Manna. Libertarians | Facebook "If we rendered unto God all the things that belong to God, there would be nothing left for Caesar." -- Dorothy Day

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Thomas E Johnson
6 years ago Featured

We do not gather as Americans when we come to any church; we come as God's people, who, I believe, is much larger and more humanly fundamental to our being than national citizenship.

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Joe Marcinkowski
6 years ago

No inside nor outside flags

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Mary Anne Grady Flores
6 years ago

As followers of Jesus, we must follow the way of the nonviolent cross, which the US military does not. Please, for the love of our Mother Mary, for the love of our Lord Jesus, and for the love of God, take down that flag.

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Steve Jacobs
6 years ago

I'd rather be a cross bearer than a flag waver.

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Martin Newell
6 years ago

no national flags anywhere in or on churches

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mark scibilia-carver
6 years ago

Kathy Boylan's petition is right on. National symbols should have no place on any cathedral or Catholic Church. We are the Catholic Church not a church of any state. As Dorothy Day said, "We are un-American, we are Catholics." This display is even worse than the cathedral in SyracuseNY which gives equal prominence to the US flag and the Papal flag on its front wall.

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Steve Baggarly
6 years ago

amen

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Catherine Foley
6 years ago

No Catholic ("universal") church building in any country should have a national flag inside or outside. Don't mix politics with religion, please. Historically and presently, this causes confusion in the less well-educated who only follow perceived human leaders instead of Christ. The established "catholic" church aught to know better by now.

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Patricia Baley
6 years ago

Flagism is contrary to the Gospels. The flag is subordinate to the cross, always. National flags have no place in or on our churches.