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We often forget this; that we must pray for the dead in order to shorten any time that they may have in Purgatory, but we often for get that the dead pray for us. They continue to love us, and to care for us.
Cardinal Raymond Burke (Our Divided Church, God's Mercy, and the Eucharistic Congress)
Spirit Hold (Part Two), by Holly Warburton.
It is interesting to me that, when referencing non-Christian religion, Cardinal Burke speaks of their "corruption"when talking about their negative aspects, which needs to experience the "purification and perfection that our Lord alone brings to every form of religious expression." It is a more... sympathetic take than I was expecting. But maybe it was wrong of me to expect otherwise, because I really don't know anything about Cardinal Burke beyond the dubia controversies.
Cardinal Raymond Burke.
Pope Francis told a meeting of the heads of Vatican offices last week that he was moving against Burke because he was a source of “disunity”
Burke has publicly challenged the liberal Pope’s outreach to the divorced, civilly remarried, and lgbt members of the faith. The Pope wants to keep those members in the fold but backwards Burke thinks he knows better and just got smacked down for his small-mindedness.
A homophobic Catholic cardinal, who blamed the church's child sex abuse scandal on the "moral depravity" of gays, wants Catholics to keep going to church.
Cardinal Speaks out about Muslim Immigration
Cardinal Speaks out about Muslim Immigration
THE VATICAN. On May 17th Cardinal Burke said at a Question and Answer session at the Rome Life Forum that resisting large-scale immigration of Muslims are responsible way of patriotism. This isn’t the first time that he has said things like this.
The teachings of the Church when it comes to immigration is that those who can’t find a way of living in their own country can immigrate to another…
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Steve Bannon Carries Battles to Another Influential Hub: The Vatican
By Jason Horowitz, NY Times, Feb. 7, 2017
ROME--When Stephen K. Bannon was still heading Breitbart News, he went to the Vatican to cover the canonization of John Paul II and make some friends. High on his list of people to meet was an archconservative American cardinal, Raymond Burke, who had openly clashed with Pope Francis.
In one of the cardinal’s antechambers, amid religious statues and book-lined walls, Cardinal Burke and Mr. Bannon--who is now President Trump’s anti-establishment eminence--bonded over their shared worldview. They saw Islam as threatening to overrun a prostrate West weakened by the erosion of traditional Christian values, and viewed themselves as unjustly ostracized by out-of-touch political elites.
“When you recognize someone who has sacrificed in order to remain true to his principles and who is fighting the same kind of battles in the cultural arena, in a different section of the battlefield, I’m not surprised there is a meeting of hearts,” said Benjamin Harnwell, a confidant of Cardinal Burke who arranged the 2014 meeting.
Just as Mr. Bannon has connected with far-right parties threatening to topple governments throughout Western Europe, he has also made common cause with elements in the Roman Catholic Church who oppose the direction Francis is taking them. Many share Mr. Bannon’s suspicion of Pope Francis as a dangerously misguided, and probably socialist, pontiff.
Until now, Francis has marginalized or demoted the traditionalists, notably Cardinal Burke, carrying out an inclusive agenda on migration, climate change and poverty that has made the pope a figure of unmatched global popularity.
For many of the pope’s ideological opponents in and around the Vatican, in Mr. Trump, and more directly in Mr. Bannon, some self-described “Rad Trads”--or radical traditionalists--see an alternate leader who will stand up for traditional Christian values and against Muslim interlopers.
On May 23, Mr. Bannon and Breitbart’s Rome correspondent Thomas Williams spoke about Pope Francis on the radio program Breitbart News Daily.
Discussing a Breitbart article about the new mayor of London titled “Pope Hails Election of Sadiq Khan, Celebrates Mass Muslim Migration Into Europe,” Mr. Bannon suggested that the pope “seems almost to be putting the responsibility on the working men and women of Italy and Europe et cetera, that they have to go out of their way to accommodate” migration.
Was the pope a global elitist, Mr. Bannon asked, “two or three steps removed from this?”
Cardinal Burke--who has said that the pope’s move to open the door for divorced Catholics remarried outside the church to receive communion, might require “a formal act of correction”--has been unusually outspoken in his criticism of Francis.
Cardinal Burke has become a champion to conservatives in the United States. Under Mr. Bannon, Breitbart News urged its Rome correspondent to write sympathetically about him. And at a meeting before last month’s anti-abortion March for Life rally in Washington, Cardinal Burke received the Law of Life Achievement, or Nail award, a framed replica of the nail used to hold the feet of Christ to the cross. According to John-Henry Westen, the editor of Life Site News, who announced the award, the prize is awarded to Christians “who have received a stab in the back.”
Despite Mr. Bannon’s inroads in Rome, Mr. Burke and other traditionalists are not ascendant in the Vatican.
The Rev. Antonio Spadaro, a Jesuit priest who edits the Vatican-approved journal La Civilta Cattolica and who is close to the pope, dismissed their criticism as the stuff of a noisy but small “echo chamber.”
He also played down the effect of Mr. Trump’s ascent on the standing of Francis’ opponents in the Vatican, saying it was only on a “level of image” and “propaganda.”
The pope will maintain his direction and not be distracted by fights against those trying to undercut him, Father Spadaro said. “He moves forward, and he moves ahead very fast.”
He added that Mr. Trump’s ban on immigrants from certain Muslim countries was “opposite” to the pontiff’s vision for how to foster unity and peace. The pope, Father Spadaro said, is doing everything he can to avoid the clash of civilizations that both fundamentalist Muslims and Christians want.
Indeed, the pope does not seem to be slowing down. Days after the election of Mr. Trump, in St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican officially elevated new cardinals selected by Pope Francis who reflected the pope’s emphasis on an inclusive church--far from the worldview of Mr. Bannon and Mr. Burke.
“It’s not that he is just bringing new people in that think maybe like him,” Cardinal Blase Cupich, the influential new cardinal of Chicago, said after the ceremony. “He is transforming the church in making us rethink how we have done things before.”
