I was surprised to see Chesterfield, Missouri, mentioned as I scrolled through my social media.
I was even more surprised to see that they were in the news because a Catholic parish there was supposedly organizing an armed militia. And the whole story, or at least what we know of it right now, is even more complicated than that.
Yesterday on X/Twitter, Laura Burkhardt, a Missouri resident and a volunteer for Moms Demand Action, tweeted out a thread about a very odd advertisement that appeared in the bulletin for Ascension Catholic Parish in Chesterfield, Missouri. The thread starts off with two screenshots. The first is the cover of the bulletin, an ordinary church bulletin like every one I’ve ever seen. The bulletin boasts that the parish is 100 years old and they have an adoration chapel where the Divine Mercy Chaplet is prayed every afternoon. Seems like a nice…
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