Pfleger returns to St. Sabina

The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the Catholic priest who got in trouble for mocking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has returned to his Chicago parish after a nearly two-week suspension.

Pfleger told a cheering congregation at St. Sabina Catholic church Sunday that he returns to the pulpit "committed to the gospel of justice."

"I will not let my faults or imperfections cause me to run and hide, nor allow them to cause me to play it safe or become silent," he said.

Cardinal Francis George suspended Pfleger on June 3 after the priest mocked Clinton while preaching from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama's former church, Trinity United Church of Christ.

Obama has since resigned his membership to Trinity.

During his sermon Sunday, Pfleger spoke about his suspension as a test of faith.

"You will fall. I will fall. And even though we fall, we can get back up again," he said. "Stumbles will shake you. Stumbles will also purify you. They will cause you to ask yourself what really matters."

Ushers at St. Sabina handed out fliers Sunday with a silhouette of boxer Muhammad Ali and the words, "Ain't nothing like a comeback."