{"id":3666,"date":"2009-05-16T21:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2025-09-26T01:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:15:55","slug":"action-at-notre-dame-as-police-crack-down-on-80-year-old-priest-carrying-crucifix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3666","title":{"rendered":"Action at Notre Dame as police crack down on 80 year old priest carrying crucifix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The priest in the video below is Fr. Norman Weslin, an uber&nbsp;pro-life activist who is now 80 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brigid and I know him pretty well, going back to 1991; in fact he&#8217;s said Mass at our house. Besides founding the Mary Weslin Home for pregnant women, he was the founder and guiding light of the anti-abortion civil disobedience group, the Lambs of Christ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here he is carrying a crucifix around ND yesterday (Friday)&nbsp;&#8211; protesting the Obama commencement speech tomorrow and his honorary degree &#8211; and the arrest him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s the point? Like he&#8217;s a danger to the community?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iiz4tfjSuPc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iiz4tfjSuPc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The priest in the video below is Fr. Norman Weslin, an uber&nbsp;pro-life activist who is now 80 years old. Brigid and I know him pretty well, going back to 1991; in fact he&#8217;s said Mass at our house. Besides founding the Mary Weslin Home for pregnant women, he was the founder and guiding light of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10075,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/10075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}