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WashPO’s Deranged Rant Against Cdl. Raymond Burke
Church Militant ^ | 2/10/17 | Rodney Pelletier

Posted on 02/11/2017 5:33:28 AM PST by markomalley

Calls on Pope Francis to fight Vatican conservatism that "wants to reassert white Christian dominance"

An opinion column in the Washington Post is denouncing Cardinal Raymond Burke as a "rebel prince," claiming he is part of the "far-right rot" in the Catholic Church.

Emma-Kate Symons' unhinged, invective-filled rant calls for Pope Francis "to take tougher action against the United States' most influential Catholic in Rome, Cdl. Raymond 'Breitbart' Burke."

She calls Burke a "renegade cleric," accusing him of "undermining [Pope] Francis' reformist, compassionate papacy and (G)ospel teaching as it applies to refugees and Muslims."

She further slams the cardinal, alleging, "But the virulently anti-Islam, 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."

Symons goes on to maintain that Burke, Steve Bannon and others they associate with — like France's Marion Le Pen — are resurrecting a nationalism that, she says, led to the "ethnic nationalism" and fascism that allowed Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler to achieve power in the 1930's.

She does not, however, stop there. She plays the tired and worn anti-Semitic card, writing, "The bellicose anti-Islam invective being marshaled by figures such as Burke shares much in common with the vicious anti-Semitism many Catholic clerics adhered to in the 1930's, when they saw Jews as a danger to the Christian West whose rights must be restricted."

Symons finishes by suggesting Pope Francis remove Burke from any association with the Knights of Malta and send him back to the United States. She further suggests Pope Francis should "write an encyclical on the burning questions of populism and nationalism, with specific reference to migrants, Muslims and Jews," she reasons, "so priests including Burke know they are in breach of Church teaching when they try to act as power brokers for the international extreme right."

In a perfect example of "cognitive dissonance," she doesn't see the contradiction when she notes Burke can't be excommunicated since he "is not a heretic denying the Catholic faith," and adds he is not "refusing to submit to the pontiff."



TOPICS: Catholic; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: anticathoicbigotry

1 posted on 02/11/2017 5:33:28 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

More leaders in the Catholic Church need to challenge His (ASS) Holiness Pope Leftist the Worst.


2 posted on 02/11/2017 5:41:46 AM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: markomalley

Progressive eugenicists have so thoroughly projected their own evils (i.e., genocide, holocaust, abortion holocaust) onto white, mainly orthodox Christian conservatives that even they now believe their own lies. And aa this article makes clear, progressive scapegoating has entered the Roman Catholic and portions of the Evangelical Church. This will not end well.


3 posted on 02/11/2017 6:01:52 AM PST by spirited irish
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To: markomalley; Salvation; trisham
How Pope Francis can cleanse the far-right rot from the Catholic Church
By Emma-Kate Symons - February 9

Emma-Kate Symons is a Washington-based journalist and former Paris correspondent. Her work has been published in Foreign Policy, Women in the World in association with the New York Times, Quartz, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal and the Australian Financial Review.
(I'll add, she is a YUGE TRUMP HATER!)


Her Twitter - almost exclusively anti-Trump

4 posted on 02/11/2017 6:15:55 AM PST by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: markomalley

This is a strong endorsement for Cardinal Burke as US Vatican ambassador. Don’t think it would ever happen, but would love to see Trump do it.


5 posted on 02/11/2017 6:50:02 AM PST by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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To: grumpygresh

If only....


6 posted on 02/11/2017 7:25:00 AM PST by onedoug
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To: markomalley

Look at her Twitter page and tell me this woman is not unhinged: https://twitter.com/eksymons


7 posted on 02/11/2017 7:27:40 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: markomalley

This Francophile knows nothing about the the Pope nor Cardinal Burke — I doubt she’s opened her Bible since forever.

Go back to France where people might enjoy reading paganistic crapola...


8 posted on 02/11/2017 7:43:12 AM PST by detch (")
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To: markomalley

Ah, I sure do miss the days when the Pope was known for clarifying the truth.


9 posted on 02/11/2017 8:14:11 AM PST by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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