Cardinal Burke is re-emerging this evening in his entirely clear, gentle commanding way. In another moment his statement might have hit the press like a rocket. Today I expect it will quickly evaporate.
Burke says that Francis’ exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, hailed worldwide as a NuChurch tolerance for all sorts of sexual sins, is personal, not magisterial; requiring our ‘respect’ but not in any way our belief. In a very hermeneutic-of-continuity way, we are to ‘apply’ the perennial teaching and discipline of the Church to those 260 pages of effeminate blather and derive the greatest “Joy of Love” benefits.
Just how we are supposed to respect the weapons of such a Lutherian obstacle to salvation I have no guess. Respecting the papal office just makes one respect Francis less.
Am I comforted by the beloved cardinal? A bit. Does it matter? Yes, because it means I’ll fall in line perhaps. If the brilliant and faithful Burke says all’s well, then I can go on enduring FrancisPapacy and wait…until what? Until everyone’s dead and in Hell? Who will they put up at the next conclave, the Holy Spirit Himself? How many years of collapse must the planet suffer?
Perhaps they’ll make Abp. Victor Manuel Fernandez Pope in 2022.
Why do I feel like George W. just came out of retirement to placate the jumpy? Where is the Reagan among these Romneys and Obamas? When will there be a real Catholic regime again in Rome, not some pacifying placeholders handing us false hope?
John XXIII was a radical formerly put down for heterodoxy, full of destructive, arrogant and liberal ideas. “The Church is not a museum?” Who said it was? I’m sure it was some non-Catholic whom the ‘good pope’ had a great desire to please and impress. Paul VI is responsible for one of the most audacious and nefarious acts in the history of mankind: the suppression of the Ancient Mass on behalf of ‘the peoples.’
Why honor and tolerate awful popes? Why continue to gape at this disabled and dysfunctional Church, and wait in the desert for the rivers of life to flow once again while all around us is death?
After Paul, ‘the sad one,’ we had thirty years of holding pattern while we choked for oxygen and the world spiraled; then kaboom! The One, destined to come and save us from the Left’s BadMediaChurch, materialized with his healing powers. Bombs left and right now wreck the Church, but all the Catholic hierarchy can muster is paid-for FrancisHomage,’ some tiny bit of correction, and words. Francis doesn’t even pretend to be Catholic ever, but all we seem to do is yell at each other about it and cry out in shock.
In the past, the faithful knew that the Church could only wither with an enemy at the helm. It was a problem more than once.
In the economy of Christ’s grace how can we achieve anything with this level of ‘effort,’ begging proud sinners to overlook the laws of God while we feed them faith-crushing showtune Masses and lie to them about their souls?
In the end Jesus isn’t going to jump up and down about ‘doctrine’ either, like some rhetorical FrancisPharisee. He’s going to judge us for the poor souls we’ve lost enabling this satanic protracted program of stupid.
I’d like to ask Cardinal Burke why the Synod of Pistoia was condemned as heretical, when it surely was in no way even a papal document.
Yet it was, partly explicitly because it was unclear! Yes, a document condemed as heresy because it was unclear!
So now we merely accept heresy because it is clear…but not magesterial?
Pope Francis has just authorized Catholics to live in mortal sin. He has authorized Catholic leaders to approve of mortal sin.
If CARDINAL BURKE has got nothing better than this, then what can we say about the Magesterium? It’s just a nice set of antiquated documents for the guidance of a small group people formerly known as Catholics but now to be known in the future as dangerous fundamentalists?
Seriously, do we have ANY men among the leadership of the Catholic Church anymore or are we stucks with nothing but “human persons” all competing for the world title of “World’s Most Like a 12 Year Old Girl”. I’m not kidding. Do all these guys just play with dolls?
Good argument!
This is really not a good sign from this good man. The phrase comes to mind, “Help us, Cardinal Burke, you’re our only hope.”
He is not wrong about it not being a magisterial document. He is wrong in thinking it doesn’t matter. It is clearly the INTENTION of the Holy Father to institute change, and he is quite open about it in the document. At one point, I questioned whether +Burke had bothered to read the whole thing.
+Burke’s closing several paragraphs were really good, and helped redeem the weaker parts.
Quote for framing.
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Pope Francis, a disgrace to the papacy.
Let’s face it Catholics, this is not your grand parents Church anymore! The Blessed Mother told us this would happen 350+- yrs ago when She appeared as Our Lady of Good Success, and later at Lasalette France. Both are fully Church approved by the way. She foretold that ” The Church will lose the faith and become the Seat of the Anti Christ. The Church will be in eclipse.” We have seen the auto-demolition commence at the close of the Second Vatican Council, as the snowball began rolling down the Seven Hills taking out vocations and laity like an epic avalanche. Every Pope hence has been an Apostate. They all practiced and participated in religions other than the One True Faith. They have trampled on the blood of the martyrs. We are in “The Great Apostacy”, there is little doubt. Thank Heaven that God sent His Mother to Fatima to proclaim to us that “In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph and an era of peace will be granted to the world”. I pray that soon the gig will be up for those wicked servants who occupy the Masters House, and we can have our Holy Catholic Church restored to us.
We are in extraordinary times.
On the one hand we have documents issued by the current pope which if not in objective but in practice cause confusion and error.
On the other hand we have the current pope’s predecessor alive and apparently well reiterating age old teachings such as there being no salvation outside the Church.
Something tells me that time is really running out now.
We need a Donald Trump pope to clean house and knock the hell out of the modernists once and for all.