Posted on 02/09/2017 5:01:54 PM PST by NRx
Pope Francis needs to take tougher action against the United States’ most influential Catholic in Rome, Cardinal Raymond “Breitbart” Burke. The renegade cleric is not only undermining Francis’s reformist, compassionate papacy, and gospel teaching as it applies to refugees and Muslims, but the rebel prince of the church is also using his position within the walls of the Vatican to legitimize extremist forces that want to bring down Western liberal democracy, Stephen K. Bannon-style. Simply put, the Vatican is facing a political war between the modernizing Pope Francis and a conservative wing that wants to reassert white Christian dominance.
Burke was reduced to a ceremonial patron role at the Knights of Malta after a power struggle at the ancient chivalric order, won by the pope last month, following a spat over its humanitarian wing’s alleged distribution of condoms. Losing the leadership battle and prestige at the secretive society headquartered in Rome — Francis is appointing his own special delegate above Burke — was seen as a papal rap on the knuckles for the cardinal leading the charge against Francis’s writings on communion for divorcees. But the virulently anti-Islam (“capitulating to Islam would be the death of Christianity”), migrant-phobic, Donald Trump-defending, Vladimir Putin-excusing Burke is unrepentant and even defiant, continuing to preside over a far-right, neo-fascist-normalizing cheer squad out of the Holy See.
This Vatican operation, called Dignitatis Humanae, or the Institute for Human Dignity, whose advisory board includes two of the four cardinals openly challenging Francis on marriage and sexuality, is slavishly promoting Burke’s favorite American white Catholic nationalist, Bannon, with star billing on its home page. The institute’s top office-bearers, Burke and his henchman, the media-savvy Breitbart contributor Benjamin Harnwell, are also encouraging Benito Mussolini fan Matteo Salvini, of Italy’s Northern League, and Muslim-baiting far-right Catholic poster girl Marion Le Pen, the National Front “rising star” niece of party leader Marine Le Pen in France.
The author should be ashamed of this nonsense. But it is Wapo after all.
Honestly couldn’t read past the first sentence. The term “paranoid schizophrenic” comes to mind.
Maybe the author and pope Francis can both join the Unitarian church. They are both well suited for it.
Thanks for copying that comment. Many of us don’t have the time to read everything in depth so we must resort to scanning over things and n the process we miss many things.
Your shot post puts the entire WAPO piece n context and at the same time informs of the depth of Catholic teaching.
Well done!
No, this “author” is just channeling his master and “father”, i.e. the Father of Lies. That is where this rant of fly infested garbage is coming from. The Devil is on the prowl like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. He is almost certain to have this one when he succumbs to the frailty of life of this world if people don’t pray for this lost soul.
She's a shoe-in to be a life DUmmies member for sure!
I suspect she has vagina on the brain even before putting on the hat.
“Burke’s favorite American white Catholic nationalist, Bannon
Perhaps the author would prefer a black Catholic nationalist, like Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes.”
Good one!
gospel teaching as it applies to refugees and Muslims,
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WOW the moslems never came along till 700 years after the LORD Jesus Christ was already crucified, and He never mentioned moslems...
That’s some prophetic “bible” youre reading, Frankie,,,
BTW if the Bible did mention the moslemsd by name they would have been one of the tribes that the Hebrews and later David were told to kill utterly to the last man who peed against the wall...
the directions about the moslems would have been akin to those for the Agagites...
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/cardinal-burke-christians-and-muslims-do-not-worship-same-god
Cardinal Burke: Christians and Muslims Do Not Worship The Same God
Lefty Looney woman speaks.....unreadable crap.
I’m sure lots of practicing Catholics go to the WaPo for their religious guidance.
This argument was inevitable. The Church will likely get smaller and more faithful, before it’s all said and done. The ‘cultural Catholics’ will finally fall away, not wanting to be tainted by those far right crazy (which means believing) Catholics, because they’ll fall for the political arguments, completely ignoring the spiritual ones.
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