Connor Elbin @celbin12 - Twitter Profile

celbin12 retweeted

10 days ago

The reason every US military chaplain chaplain awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor since the Civil War was a Catholic priest is because Catholic priests have something to offer a dying soldier that Protestant chaplains don’t: last rites. That’s why they would routinely put themselves in harm’s way to reach dying men on the battlefield, why they inspired their fellow soldiers to become Catholic, and why they alone have been recognized with the Congressional Medal of Honor in the modern era.

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@OrdinariateUSA

10 days ago

“The Catholics pick the very best chaplains - young, virile, active and patriotic. The troops look up to them. I’ve only met one or two Protestant chaplains worth their ration cards.” - USMC Lt. General Chesty Puller In the Pacific Theatre of WW2, a Protestant chaplain approached Col. Puller, complaining that many Marines were converting to Catholicism. Later, while the Marines were out on patrol, Puller found that same chaplain at the battalion HQ. He told him, “Your place was with the fighting men. You remember our little talk about Protestant boys joining the Catholics? They see those priests doing their duty and see you evading it. I can’t work up much sympathy for you.” There were so many converts that mothers in the US wrote letters to the front, concerned that their sons would join the Catholic Church. Puller wrote back that if the Protestant chaplains had the guts to go where the Catholic chaplains did, where the bullets were flying, maybe their sons wouldn’t be converting. Chesty Puller, a lifelong Episcopalian, had great respect for the Catholic chaplains of WW2 and even sent his own children to Catholic school after the war.

OrdinariateUSA's tweet photo. “The Catholics pick the very best chaplains - young, virile, active and patriotic. The troops look up to them. I’ve only met one or two Protestant chaplains worth their ration cards.”
- USMC Lt. General Chesty Puller

In the Pacific Theatre of WW2, a Protestant chaplain approached Col. Puller, complaining that many Marines were converting to Catholicism.

Later, while the Marines were out on patrol, Puller found that same chaplain at the battalion HQ. He told him,

“Your place was with the fighting men. You remember our little talk about Protestant boys joining the Catholics? They see those priests doing their duty and see you evading it. I can’t work up much sympathy for you.”

There were so many converts that mothers in the US wrote letters to the front, concerned that their sons would join the Catholic Church. Puller wrote back that if the Protestant chaplains had the guts to go where the Catholic chaplains did, where the bullets were flying, maybe their sons wouldn’t be converting.

Chesty Puller, a lifelong Episcopalian, had great respect for the Catholic chaplains of WW2 and even sent his own children to Catholic school after the war.

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over 2 years ago

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over 3 years ago

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