Rev. Pfleger wants guns banned from all archdiocese buildings

BY MICHAEL SNEED July 31, 2014 9:28PM

Pfleger, the firebrand pastor of one of the largest African-American Catholic congregations in Chicago, now wants guns banned from all buildings belonging to the archdiocese.

“Guns shouldn’t be in our churches,” said Pfleger, the combative pastor of St. Sabina who describes himself “as the only priest in the archdiocese to be suspended twice!”

“How can we be role models and a witness in the world if guns are in our buildings and offices — especially when gang crime is destroying our neighborhoods and when the CEO of a Loop company was shot in his office today by an employee, who then killed himself,” he tells Sneed.

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