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Catholic influence? Dead?
http://www.tomroeser.com/blogs/blogview.asp?blogID=24898
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"Catholics REFUSE to wake up.
Catholic Bishops' document elected President conman"
- Carl Segvich
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from Tom Roeser:
Burke Won’t Shut Up.
Just as a legion of U.S. presidents have been bedeviled by the
inflexible federal bureaucracy whose bottom line is to endure and
persist, Popes have often seen their wishes altered by the in-place
curia…an institutionally impervious cushion of undesirable fat
which all too often smothers pontiffs’ intent. No sooner was Saint
Louis’ Archbishop Raymond Burke making great headway in his
archdiocese and building an enviable record in behalf of authentic
Catholic leadership than voila he was “promoted” to the Vatican.
The Roman p. r. factory made it sound like he was installed at the
right hand of Benedict with something known as the prefecture of
the Apostolic Signatura-which few had heard of-but it turns out to
be a glorified marriage court…the only advantage being that in
good time the occupant gets a red hat.
It is a measure of the alacrity and fastidiousness with which the
Curia handles its duties that thus far there has not been a
successor to Burke in Saint Louis. Odds are that the delay is to let
the vigor and refreshing candor of Burke be forgotten until the
successor…a parsing, on-one-hand-then-the-other…is named. If
they name a gutsy one, scratch the foregoing: but don’t count on it.
But from his berth in Rome, it is to his credit that Burke won’t shut
up. Not long ago he put out an interview with LifeSiteNews.com
that singled out a document issued by the U.S. Catholic
bishops…and you know who heads that magnificent
assembly…which Burke says is responsible for misleading 54% of
Catholics who voted for the “most pro-abortion president” in U. S.
history. The jibe by Burke is right so far as it goes but since
relatively few Catholics go to Sunday Mass…directly attributable to
the lethargy of the bishops and insouciant priests…whether a dull,
parsing document is responsible is problematic. But there is no
doubt that the document reflects the heavily perfumed hand of the
most politically liberal of the bishops, a friend of the Kennedys, one
who willfully withheld the gist of Ratzinger’s letter on pro-life,
withheld it in order to protect his Democratic buddies: Theodore
Cardinal McCarrick, retired of Washington, D. C.
It doesn’t matter that McCarrick is retired. With the unutterable
weakness of the bishops’ organization he’s a lively liberal
Democratic mole who has a lot to say and who deftly shaped the
document while the leadership was fastidiously pursing its lips and
talking like doctoral candidates. You have to hand it to McCarrick
who is an old-line lefty ideologue and who totally outclasses and
outmaneuvered the bishops’ leadership. In watering down the
draft, he worked with the bishops’ number two-Bishop Gerald
Kicanas. Kicanas, of Chicago, an ex-Quigley and Mundelein
administrator, is noted for saying to the “Sun-Times” that he was
more worried about Dan McCormack’s excessive drinking than his
fooling around with boys…adding that if he had to do it all over
he’d still ordain McCormack who is serving time in prison for child
abuse. Everyone associated with the McCormack scandal in the
Chicago archdiocese was been promoted in Chicago…Kicanas
moving up to auxiliary bishop, then to Tucson, then to number two
in the hierarchy of U. S. bishops.
As someone noted for the use of balanced, nicey-nice ecclesial
language reflective of his two Ph.Ds once said “it makes you want
to weep.”
What did the straight-talking Burke say about the document
“Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” that was distributed
during the 2008 election? He cited the fact that the piece said that
under certain circumstances a Catholic could in good conscience
vote for a candidate who supports abortion because of “other
grave reasons,” so long as they did not intend to support that
pro-abortion position. This is exactly the rationale that the
Kennedys…Bobby and Teddy…employed when they paid off two
hireling theologians to rationalize how to square Hyannisport with
the social left as outlined in “The Faithful Departed” written by
Philip Lawler.
The bishops’ document “led to confusion” among Catholics, said
Burke. “While it stated that the issue of life was the first and most
important issue, it went on in some specific areas to say `but there
are other issues’ that are of comparable importance without
making distinctions,” he said. He cited an article by a priest and
ethics expert of the Saint Louis archdiocese, Msgr. Kevin
McMahon, who analyzed how the bishops’ document actually
contributed to the election of Obama terming its proposal “a kind
of false thinking that says “there’s the evil in the taking an
innocent and defenseless human life but there are other evils and
they’re worthy of equal consideration.”’”
Burke continued, “But they’re not. The economic situation or
opposition to the war in Iraq or whatever it may be, those things
don’t rise to the same level as something that is always and
everywhere evil, namely the killing of innocent and defenseless
human life.”
Sitting in his high-domed office at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies at liberal, secular Georgetown University
where he is a counselor, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick is right at
home among the Georgetown intelligentsia.
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