Posted on 03/27/2015 4:43:28 PM PDT by EveningStar
When Pope Francis last year effectively demoted U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke by moving him out of a senior post in the Vatican to a largely ceremonial role as head of a Rome-based Catholic charity, it was viewed as a way to sideline one of the pontiff’s most outspoken critics on the right ...
Now the American churchman has spoken out again, telling an interviewer that gay couples and divorced and remarried Catholics who are trying to live good and faithful lives are still like “the person who murders someone and yet is kind to other people.” ...
(Excerpt) Read more at religionnews.com ...
Pope Franky Boy has his detractors, deservedly so.
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Burke is a brave, honest, Godly man. The world needs more religious leaders like him.
So if a person divorced under man’s law afterward marries another person while the former partner is still alive, and thus is engaged in remarriage adultery according to Jesus, what does one call their children?
“Cardinal Raymond Burke: Gays, remarried Catholics, murderers are all the same”
Cardinal Burke never said the words in the headline. What he said was the simple truth that a sin is a sin and being nice does not wipe it away.
This is an obvious dishonest attack on Cardinal Burke who has the courage to speak the truth. The problem is there are always dishonest people who will twist the truth around to convince foolish and ignorant people that the speaker said something bad.
Sodomy and Murder are both among the “four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance”.
Is this a left wing anti-Christian site that you are using?
If anything, he was not blunt enough. What he was clearly trying to say, using blunter words that he did, is "Just like murder, sodomy and living in a continual state of adultery are both grave sins. And if you don't take yourself out of that situation and repent, you could be headed to hell just like a murderer, no matter how "nice" you are otherwise."
The word "nice" does not appear in the Bible, only the commandment to "be holy, as your heavenly Father is holy,"(1 Peter 1:15) and to "strive for the holiness without which no one will see God." (Hebrews 12:14)
If anything, he was not blunt enough. What he was clearly trying to say, using blunter words that he did, is "Just like murder, sodomy and living in a continual state of adultery are both grave sins. And if you don't take yourself out of that situation and repent, you could be headed to hell just like a murderer, no matter how "nice" you are otherwise."
The word "nice" does not appear in the Bible, only the commandment to "be holy, as your heavenly Father is holy,"(1 Peter 1:15) and to "strive for the holiness without which no one will see God." (Hebrews 12:14)
The person who writes the headline is rarely the person who writes the article.
Who the HELL wrote this HEADLINE?????
Your question shows lack of knowledge
I have no idea. I never heard of the site until a few minutes ago.
Probably some junior staffer who's been told to write attention grabbing headlines.
Well don’t you think that it was worth checking out before you made the false claim, the lie?
You had a link to the original interview right in front of you, all you had to do was click on it and it would have taken you directly to the lifesitenews interview.
"They" (by which I presume you are referring to the Church) don't call them "bastards" if that's what you're thinking. "Bastard" is a legal term related to property and inheritance rights, not an ecclesiastical term. They are simply called "his children." Hope that helps. :)
LSN: Among the viewpoints of Cardinal Kasper and, more recently, Bishop Bonny of Antwerp, and others, was the consideration that “faithful” homosexuals, “remarried” divorcees and non-married couples show qualities of self-sacrifice, generosity and dedication that cannot be ignored. But through their choice of lifestyle, they are in what must be seen by outsiders as an objective state of mortal sin: a chosen and prolonged state of mortal sin. Could you remind us of the Church’s teaching on the value and merit of prayer and good actions in this state?
CB: If you are living publicly in a state of mortal sin there isn’t any good act that you can perform that justifies that situation: the person remains in grave sin. We believe that God created everyone good, and that God wants the salvation of all men, but that can only come about by conversion of life. And so we have to call people who are living in these gravely sinful situations to conversion. And to give the impression that somehow there’s something good about living in a state of grave sin is simply contrary to what the Church has always and everywhere taught.
***LSN: So when the man in the street says, yes, it’s true these people are kind, they are dedicated, they are generous, that is not enough?
***CB: Of course it’s not. It’s like the person who murders someone and yet is kind to other people…
LSN: What genuine pastoral care would you recommend for people in those situations, and what can they obtain from practicing their faith insofar as that is possible when they cannot obtain absolution or receive Holy Communion?
It looks like you beat me by three minutes.
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