R.I.P. Monsignor Reilly: "You Will Never Be A Bishop"
Monsignor Philip Reilly, whose mission outside abortion businesses saved the lives of many unborn babies, died on November 30 at the age of 90. He was buried on December 9.
Monsignor Reilly was born in New York City on June 21, 1934, and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Brooklyn on May 28, 1960.
He has been battling skin cancer for many years. Doctors warned him not to go outside anymore. He followed the advice only to the extent of wearing a hat while spending countless hours in the sun doing sidewalk counseling outside of abortion businesses.
In his later years, much of his nose had to be surgically removed.
Fellow Priest: "You Will Never Be a Bishop"
In the 1980, Monsignor Reilly was involved with various pro-life organizations. He was arrested more than once for blocking the entrance to abortion businesses.
A fellow priest once told him after another arrest: "You will never be a bishop."
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Here is a long video with stories outside the clinic in New York:
Father Philip Reilly, RIP: “I had a woman who came to me, she was 24 years old and beautiful looking. I couldn't remember her. How could I forget that beautiful woman?
She said: ‘My mother is here to talk to you.’
Now, many times, as you know, when a teenager is brought to the abortion clinic by her mother, that's the toughest scenario. The mother's going to say: ‘No one's going to destroy my daughter's life by making her keep this child.’ That's the attitude they have.
I thought that was the situation.
But she told me that her mother wanted to thank me. The mother came over, and I couldn't remember her either. I said, I'm really slipping, I must be getting old. What's going on?
Then, they both thanked me for speaking to her. And she said: ‘Father, 25 years ago, outside the abortion clinic Choices in Queens, you spoke to me, and you said, keep the child.’
And she added: ‘I did. And this 24-year-old woman standing in front of you is my daughter.’
Now, the reality is this: “It's 25 years later, I'm in Brooklyn now, that happened in Queens. They will never forget you, if you help them to have the child.”
God eternally Bless this saintly man who responded to the horror of abortion. In all honesty I must admit that I disagree with his sidewalk philosophy of no pickets, no demonstrations. I believe in picketing, demonstrations and loud and obtrusive shouting. What else would a person do when witnessing 30 babies being murderer by their own mothers with a heart of stone. Jesus used a whip of cords on the money changers, we can do no less.