CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Tribune
January 9, 2021
By Annie Sweeney and William Lee
https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/life/national/longtime-advocate-for-community-lightning-rod-for-critics-pfleger-forced-to-watch-others-carry-on/article_16bee690-cfac-5579-ae92-8ce156c50a74.html
In his years of seemingly relentless advocating and fighting for social justice in Chicago, the Rev. Michael Pfleger has often charged into the center of controversy, publicly defying and rebuking his church and city leaders on everything from gun violence to race and economic disparities.
He has been arrested while protesting outside a suburban gun shop. He ran afoul of his downtown church bosses, earning suspensions. He lost a foster child to gun violence and faced hateful reactions in some Chicago enclaves after standing with victims of police shootings.
Throughout, Pfleger, a Roman Catholic priest from a white working-class neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side, has built trust and amassed a dedicated following, leading with a righteous fury that garnered national attention from his base at St. Sabina in Auburn Gresham, the city’s largest Black Catholic congregation.
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