Cardinal Burke: Trump’s Victory Suggests America has ‘Awoken’ to its Moral Crisis

LifeSite News ^ | 11/10/16 | Claire Chretien

[al baby]

That Cardinal just got a demotion

[Sivad]

No, probably not. But, maybe America has awoken to
the fact that it is drifting farther to the left than it really wants to go.

[freedom6178]

The family unit in this country has been destroyed. The left has almost succeeded in debasing our culture. I hope we have a renewal.

[Digger]

As Trump says - this is a movement.

[DannyTN]

I hope he is right, but I fear he is wrong for several reasons:

• The election was close and Hillary won the popular vote.
• Economics and jobs was a major factor in this election, especially in the rust belt flipping to Republican. The country appears to be turning away from so-called "free trade", but that doesn't equate to a moral turning.
• Trump was able to shift the discussion at the last debate to late term abortions even up to the day before birth. That made a lot of abortion supporters uncomfortable. But that doesn't mean that they aren't comfortable drawing an artificial line somewhere else in the pregnancy. Maybe that's a slight turning, but not nearly enough.
• Clinton's corruption became headlines for weeks on end, thanks to Wikileaks. The corruption should have been obvious a long long time ago to anyone with a little logic. You don't go into office broke and come out mega-rich unless you are corrupt. Turning away from that level of corruption, doesn't mean the country has really started to be able to judge a candidate's character.
• The media hasn't changed. They are now trying to convince us that we are all racist because of our choice. Until they are split up and have more conservative opposition, they will continue to warp the values and mindset of America. So will Hollywood.
• We are letting more and more negative and anti-Christian forces into our schools and we are turning out more atheists in the process. If we don't figure out how to lead our children in the paths of righteousness, we will continue our slide into moral decay.

On the upside, Trump will help set the direction of SCOTUS in a better direction, possibly for decades.

[Phillyred]

God has intervened bigly in this Year of Mercy. Look how bad quickly the culture got under the influence of Obama. The president can have a big effect on the culture.

[ebb tide]

Maybe America has woken up to the moral crisis, but Rome sure hasn’t.

[SubMareener]

I keep trying to tell you, ebb tide, stop worrying about Rome! That Harlot is going to ride that Beast and there is nothing you can do about it! Hold fast! Look up! Your redemption draws near!

[miele man]

Unfortunately, he already was demoted by the current Pope.

[blackpacific]

The Harlot is Saudi Arabia and the Beast is Wahhabism. The Fall of Babylon will be the fall of Mecca. The fact that Yemen has been launching Scud missiles at Mecca in the last few weeks, supposedly the holiest site in the Islamic world, is evidence that Mecca’s days are numbered. Walid Shoebat interprets Rev 17 &18 very nicely in his book “God’s War on Terror”.

Protestants who have ignorantly identified the Harlot with Catholicism will have some splainin’ to do when the Man returns.

[SubMareener]

These are symbolic types. They can be instantiated in more than one way.

[Tax-chick]

I understand why Cdl. Burke would like to believe this, but I don’t see the slightest evidence for it.

[circlecity]

"The election was close and Hillary won the popular vote."

That has by no means been established. There's still about 7% of the vote to be counted as of yesterday and her "lead" is only about 150K votes nationwide. Further, many absentee votes are never counted once the there are less outstanding ballots that the margin of victory for the offices. Don't blindly but what the MSM keeps trying to sell. They are liars and propagandists.

[blackpacific]

In some ways wisely, in other ways through lack of charity coupled with ignorance.

[DannyTN]

It was still too close.
I know too many people that were willing to overlook Hillary’s corruption and incompetence as well as the issues and bought the MSM’s claim that Trump was too inflamatory to be President.

Electing Trump will certainly help us turn on moral issues. But I think the nation elected Trump despite not having turned on moral issues.

[wiley]

Trump won the Evangelicals with 81% and Catholics with 52%. He made it a key issue to ensure Christians are free to practice their Faith. He wants to repeal the law that uses the IRS as a weapon against Christian leaders.

Christians, including this one, prayed fervently for his victory.

All those to me signify that there was also a moral component to this election.

[NYer]

What Trump has "said about pro-life issues, family issues and also issues regarding religious freedom shows a great disposition to hear the Church on these matters and to understand that these are fundamentally questions of the moral law, not questions of religious confession," said Burke. "They are questions of the moral law, which religion in the country, as the Founding Fathers understood from the start, is meant to support and to sustain. The government needs the help of religious leadership in order to hold to an ethical norm."

Catholic ping!

[milford421]

We got a second chance. Now it’s our turn to do the right thing and encourage as many people as we can to come along.

[tiki]

I believe God intervened with every fiber of my being.