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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (480)	1/17/2013 1:08:49 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 515

Dog by dog America's war on dogs is succeeding. Uptown Couple Says Cop Shot Their Dog Colonel will be OK but won't be the show dog family had hoped By Natalie Martinez and BJ Lutz \| Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 \| Updated 10:45 PM CST Colonel will never be the show dog his owners intended after being hit by either shrapnel or a bullet over the weekend. Natalie Martinez reports. An Uptown family says a Chicago officer used excessive force and robbed them of potential income when he shot their 7-month-old miniature bull terrier over the weekend. The dog, Colonel, comes from a championship show line, and while he'll be OK after his surgery, he won't ever be the show dog Al and Barbara Phillips had hoped. The couple on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the city and the Chicago Police Department, seeking in excess of $50,000. Colonel was injured Saturday at about 3 p.m., when Al Phillips came out of his home on the 800 block of West Buena Avenue as Ofc. Brandon Pettigrew was issuing him a parking ticket. According to the lawsuit, the dog, wagging his tail, ran past his owner. Pettigrew, apparently feeling threatened, pulled his gun and fired twice. Colonel was hit by either a bullet or shrapnel and took off running. He was later found "cowering and shaking in bushes," the suit states, and taken to a veterinarian for emergency care. "It's excessive force, really. And it's unfortunate because I have a lot of respect for the Chicago Police Department, and this is horrible," the couple's daughter, Morgan Phillips, said Tuesday. Attorneys from the firm of Fisher and Lamonica are representing the family. "A ricochet bullet, thank God it didn't go into a child that was walking around, but we don't believe there was any cause here for the officer to un-holster his gun to begin with, let alone fire two rounds," said attorney Erron Fisher. To add insult to injury, the Phillips say that after Pettigrew shot the dog, he "casually and callously" continued to write the parking ticket. Additionally, they said they were visited by two officers on Monday evening and questioned as to why the incident was getting media attention. The suit says the officers "insinuated that Barbara Phillips and her family should let this matter go and not push it any further." When Al Phillips indicated that he "would not let this matter go quietly," the officers gave him a citation, the suit says. That citation says Phillips "failed to keep his dog ... restrained within his property or leashed and under his control." A police spokeswoman on Tuesday evening said the Independent Police Review Authority is looking into the matter. The officer remains on the job. http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-police-officer-shoots-dog-lawsuit-182101271.html#ixzz2IG1HzN00

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (480)	1/18/2013 12:01:00 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 515

Good advertisement for SSPX. Calgary Catholics warned about SSPX parish Written by Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News Tuesday, 01 January 2013 11:14 Calgary Bishop Fred Henry has warned Catholics in his diocese not to attend a church purchased by the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX). In the diocesan newsletter The Carillon, Henry pointed out SSPX had bought the building formerly occupied by St. Michael’s Catholic Church, which has relocated. The confusion lies in the name of the new SSPX parish: St. Dennis Catholic Church. Henry stressed, “St. Dennis is not a Catholic church and the fact that they are identifying themselves as a Catholic church is problematic and confusing for many people.” “St. Dennis Church does not have canonical status within the Roman Catholic diocese of Calgary,” Henry said, noting Catholics should not attend this parish or receive sacraments from any SSPX priest “unless in dire emergency or danger of death.” The bishop lays out the history of SSPX and its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Since the founding of the society, there have been illicit ordinations of priests and bishops, resulting in excommunications. Though the excommunications of the four bishops who succeeded Lefebvre have since been lifted, it did not change the juridical status of SSPX, “which presently does not enjoy any canonical recognition by the Catholic Church, Henry said. As for Lefebvre, “He did not reject Vatican II, or even the reform of the Mass (he voted for the Council document that called for it) but he did reject the current rites, promulgated in 1969, though he did not argue they were invalid,” Henry writes. Henry noted that there were a number of seminarians and priests at the Swiss seminary Lefebvre founded in Encône, Switzerland, who did not wish to go into schism with the Holy See and sought another solution. Their efforts led to the erection of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) which have had the celebration of the Tridentine rite as part of their charism. The bishop noted their “loyalty and faithfulness,” as well as devotion to the Traditional Latin Mass. “On the other hand, the SSPX has gotten more strident over time, harboring sedevacantists and others with positions more extreme than Archbishop Lefebvre would have tolerated,” he said. For those in Calgary who wish to attend a Tridentine Mass, Henry directs them to St. Anthony’s parish, run by the FSSP. The National Post ran a Dec. 13 story on the issue, treating it as a dispute among Catholic factions. It quotes Fr. Jurgen Wegner, SSPX’s Canadian district superior, as being “surprised” by the bishop’s letter. He told the Post there are about 600 SSPX members in Calgary and they needed a larger location to worship. catholicregister.org