Tom Roeser tears into the archdiocese of Chicago for its toleration of Father Pfleger, the “snuff” priest, calls him “incendiary”:

Asking the archdiocese to take action is like pleading a cause to the deaf and dumb church officialdom which covers eyes and ears with heavily ringed hands to hear no evil, see no evil. The archdiocese has been notable for having a collective clerical spine the consistency of Jello pudding.

He blames the chancellor, Jimmy Lago:

Anyone who suspects that [Hillary C. recently making a campaign stop at Mercy Home] just happened to “slip by unnoticed” from this Roman Catholic chancery is a hopeless naïf. Not when the Chancellor is noted for his past as an outstanding 10th ward Democratic precinct captain.

The chancellor, layman Jimmy Lago (Jimmy being his baptized name, not James) was Ed Vrdolyak’s best Democratic precinct captain in the 10th ward when Ed was committeeman, alderman and chairman of the Cook county Democratic party. And while Vrdolyak changed his party, no one is imagining that Jimmy-who marched with that other icon of liberal protest, Caesar Chavez-has.

Now what?

Now that Pfleger has espoused murder, will the Chancery act? The normal expectation is that, rooted in fright and cowed by a mélange of Democratic politicians surrounded by its ex-Cook county Democratic Precinct Captain Chancellor, it will not.

If it does not act, violence breaks out in Riverdale or elsewhere that suits Pfleger’s demagogic mood, blood will be on the chancery’s hands. And on the newspaper print media which, content to inveigh against “hate speech,” shrinks from the task of condemning this flamboyantly irresponsible emotionally erratic blond cleric who has been carried away with his own celebrity, savoring as he salaciously does the cheers of an unruly, violence-prone mob.

Well, Chancellor Lago; since you’re in charge, since you’re running things, it’s now your move.

Fighting words.  No wonder the Roeser web site has a warning:

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Interesting that Roeser in this makes no mention of Cardinal George, whom he has accused in the past, even recently, of running too loose a ship: “Dear Cardinal George, We are outraged and dismayed,” he and another wrote, protesting Hillary’s appearance at Mercy Home.

Now it’s all Lago, however, as if he pulls the cardinalatial strings.  Does he?