http://deacbench.blogspot.com/2009/03/burke-irked.html
“And now there is word that someone who is well known among Republicans, and who has served in previous Republican administrations, is reaching out on behalf of the Obama administration to get the Holy See to quiet Burke, or at least to make it clear he speaks not for the Church, but only for himself.”
I wonder who this individual might be...?
Apparently the sitting President is totally ignorant, as I surmised, regarding The US Constitution. (Other than that he thinks it’s flawed and he’s not.)
Archbishop Burke has the full support of Pope Benedict XVI because this situation is exactly what the Pope spoke of when he was here in the States.
And if the sitting President thinks he is ‘bigger than the Pope’ because he thinks he’s some kind of messiah bringing his salvation to the world . . . he’s not just a fool (who has said in his heart ‘there is no god’), he’s a d@mn fool.
Didn’t the Nazis prior to WW2 manage to compromise the Church’s leadership?
Didn’t the Nazis prior to WW2 manage to compromise the Church’s leadership?
LOl! Burke will NOT be silenced.
They don’t know Burke very well.
The Holy Father can resolve some of this by replacing the bishop of Washington DC.
The Holy See has a long history of dealing with hostile governments/politicians. Rome isn’t going to silence Archbishop Burke regardless of how much pressure the Administration tries to exert. Obama better watch himself here because if anyone goes down in this contest, it won’t be the Church.
Like the Pope would ACTUALLY listen to that thug, Bammy! HA!
It will be interesting to watch this one play out. The American Catholic Church has been blindly loyal to the DNC for decades, and is willing to overlook a lot. I just wonder if they (the DNC) is finally pushing to far.
The answer (perhaps)as to who was putting the pressure on:
Dr. Thomas Patrick Melady is the former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Sorry (barf)it’s an NCR article:
http://ncronline.org/news/politics/politicizing-communion-harms-interests-church
In related news, I wanted to make sure you got this link to the possibly GOOD news about Notre Dame: the UNINVITE OBAMA PETITION now has a phenomenal 223,607 signatures (sign up and send it to everybody in your Address Book!)
...And a BIG, BIG PROTEST IS A-COMIN' which stirs my activist imagination and makes me think Obama is gonna unite us after all :o)
Imagine 20,000 young, old, tie-dyed, purple-haired, properly-hatted and mantilla-covered, Catholic and not-Catholic-by-a-long-shot, All-Baby-Loving conservatives in the streets of South Bend singing
Please forgive me if I've pinged you more than once. I'm getting kinda excited, here....
Anyone looked back at this article? Just curious. Seems like they have cooperation now in getting rid of Cardinal Burke.
What a battle we are in. Can’t wait to see Mary crush the head of the serpent.