Mastodawn

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/sweeney-pretti-minneapolis-martyr-ice-trump

It drives many of the MAGA white Catholics who have voted in the majority three times now for Trump when fellow Catholics speak of Alex Pretti as a martyr. Their rage does not deter Fellow Catholic Terence Sweeney. He writes,

"Alex Pretti was a martyr. I am not using this term merely rhetorically. artyrdom is one of the most essential categories of Christian life."

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Alex Pretti, Martyr | Commonweal Magazine

By his spontaneous example, Alex Pretti called all Americans, but especially American Christians, to account.

"It first means to witness or testify to our faith. We primarily do this by our words and deeds, by teaching and evangelization. Its second and better-known meaning is to lay down one’s life. Very few live out this form of martyrdom. But some do. Pretti did. ...

In 1971, when Pope Paul VI preached at the beatification of Kolbe, he spoke of him as 'a martyr of love.'"

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"Pope John Paul II affirmed this by declaring the new category of 'martyrs for charity.'

Both popes taught that such martyrs remind us of the central Christian truth that we are all called to lay down our lives for others. That is what Pretti did.

Consider what we know about the man himself."

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"Baptized into the faith as an infant, he attended Catholic grammar school and was formed by his experience in a Catholic Scouting troop where he earned a Light of Christ medal.

Pretti worked in an intensive-care unit, caring for people with life-threatening illnesses or injuries. Fr. Harry Tasto, who worked with Pretti as a hospital chaplain, preached that Pretti was known 'for his kindness and gentleness.'"

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"These are, notably, fruits of the Holy Spirit. In a powerful video clip recorded at the VA Hospital where Pretti worked, we see him speaking after the death of a veteran. He says that to keep our freedom we 'have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it.' Spending his life in service of those in the ICU, he recognized that those in the Armed Services have given their lives for freedom."

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"He was doing much the same in the frozen streets of Minneapolis—working for freedom, nurturing it, protecting it, and sacrificing for it. ...

Pretti’s charity was expressed in his willingness to intervene for an unknown woman who was thrown to the ground by a thug working for the federal government. Many conservatives lament the decline of chivalry and the loss of what they call the 'masculine virtues.'"

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"Well, stepping in between an innocent woman and a gang of violent men must count as chivalry if anything does. Shouting 'Don’t touch her!,' Pretti stood between the brutal power of ICE and the vulnerability of a stranger.

But it’s Pretti’s last words that stick with me: 'Are you okay?' I think of my own children."

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"I want them to be the kind of people who will say, 'Are you okay?' if they see someone on the ground. I think of my students at Villanova, many of them studying to be nurses, and want them to be ready to ask, 'Are you okay?' Alex Pretti’s last words might have been the Good Samaritan’s first words when he chanced upon the victim of thieves on the road to Jericho."

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"It would have been so easy for Pretti just to back away, to let the masked men tackle her instead of him, to avoid the sting of pepper spray, the pain of being hit in the face, & the moment of death. Pretti could have told himself that this woman he’d never met before was not his problem. Instead, like the Good Samaritan, he went out of his way for a stranger. He paid the ultimate price for that decision."

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Randall Lee Feb 1

@wdlindsy Conservatives have always been hypocritical shitbags. They have no core principles that align with a healthy, thriving society.