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.
Switch to decaf? If only! Ten bucks says that the author is an atheist pretending to have the best interests of the Catholic Church at heart.
I am an Italian, born and raised in Bari. I now live in the United States. I am also a devout Roman Catholic. This writer is well known in Italy and Europe for her anti-Catholic views and interests. She is also a first rate liar. The Post should be embarrassed to publish this anti-Catholic bigot.
"As the Italian press first revealed, Burke held a long meeting last week at his Vatican home with Salvini, a fierce critic of the pope who wants to push refugees back into the sea and close all mosques in Italy." Never happened. Not true. A lie.
Dignitatis Humanae has always been split between reform and conservative Catholic scholarship. This is nothing new. The Church encourages open and transparent debate on Church teachings, values, and interests.
Cardinal Burke is one of the most respected leaders in the Church, who defends Catholic foundational teachings and scholarship with a sharp intellect and informed institutional knowledge of the Church and it's teachings. He is not some fringe character pulling the strings in the Vatican. What nonsense.
Gospel teaching “as it applies to Muslims” would mean warning them that are hellbound.
More fact free writings from WaPo, ho-hum.
Is this broad even a Catholic?
The Wash PO seems to get the most nutty, far left kooks there is and then pretend they are journalists, and they are the press.
Pope francis is not a catholic his relgion is leftsist political correctness. He is destroying the church, and doing so on purpose.
The “renegade cleric… wants to bring down Western liberal democracy.”
Wow. And I thought Burke was just a Cardinal in the Catholic Church. Either I was wrong or the author is insane.
The fake Pope seems intent on doing just that, running off the people who believe in Christianity.
When all that is left are Marxists and muslims, what will it be?
Enema-Kate must be one of those pu$$y marchers.
If Cardinal Burke were Pope John Paul III, I might consider standing with him as a Catholic. If Msgr. Pope were the Pope, I think I would already be in RCIA. In the meantime, I think I will continue to worship where the teaching is Scriptural and the sacraments are provided.
Delusion is not a river in Egypt
I don’t think the author likes white people.
The People's Caliphate of Antichrististan
The shame I feel when so many idiots of my tribe support Hillary Clinton, Obama; etc.
"If the Jews are the Democratic party at prayer, then the feminists are the Democratic party in drag."
Norman Podohertz
Oh, that’s gooood.
If the left thinks closing all the Mosques and exiling Muslims is too extreme they haven’t read Revelation recently!
There is not the slightest chance this is not an atheist screed.
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