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1 posted on 03/24/2015 1:52:42 PM PDT by NYer
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Cardinal Burke noted that while previously the “authority of the Church prohibited certain discussions,” now Catholics feel free to dispute even settled Catholic teaching such as that forbidding contraception.

Secularist society effect, ping!

2 posted on 03/24/2015 1:54:02 PM PDT by NYer (Without justice - what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
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I see he spoke out on several topics. God bless him.


3 posted on 03/24/2015 2:09:56 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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May God bless and keep Cardinal Burke.


4 posted on 03/24/2015 3:09:53 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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The cardinal encouraged married couples to be generous in having children, dismissing false notions of the ecological need for population control. “The truth is that if God has called a couple to marriage, then He is calling them also to be generous in receiving the gift of new human life,” he said. “And so we need many larger families today, and thanks be to God I see among some young couples today a remarkable generosity with regard to children.”
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Seems to be a direct reply to Pope Francis saying, "Catholics don't need to breed like rabbits", and on the Pope's views on overpopulation and, tangentially, climate change.

To Cardinal Burke:


6 posted on 03/24/2015 6:47:22 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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