The following interview was paraphrased Mar. 19 on the blog site Eponymous Flower.
The Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura spoke with unmistakable clarity : “It takes uncompromising Catholics” to oppose the killing of unborn children, artificial insemination, and the gender ideology. In an exceptional and very long interview with the monthly magazine Radici Cristiane by Roberto de Mattei, the Cardinal treated in a Catholic manner, the burning and controversial issues of the current debate over which, anti-Church circles exercise an increasingly radical cultural hegemony and how the thinking of Europeans is veritably brainwashed, which begins in kindergarten. There is no more time to watch idly or to talk about compromise. Nor is it legitimate to resign.[!] The tacit resignation in the face of a psychological, moral and spiritual destruction thus constitutes a form of compromise with evil, says the Cardinal.
The traditional Cardinal from the U.S. calls on the parents and teachers to decide to act against things included in the school programs and curricula, which means the “injured innocence of children”. These include programs that already want to teach four or five year old children that marriage could have “different forms”.
Catholics Should Stand up Against Perversions of Relativism
An end to the silence, an end to the anxiety, an end to the cowardice. It is necessary to bear witness to the truth of Christ to affirm the natural right to call the healthy Catholic doctrine into memory and stand up to the rampant perversions of relativism and secularism against the Church, against life and against the family, the cardinal said.
A certain laxity in the past decades have fostered the emergence and enforcement of false ideas. The fight against truth, beauty and goodness is in its present severity would have been unthinkable, if the half-heartedness had not come into the Church, the cardinal said. “A real Catholic believes entirely in every truth taught by the Church without compromise. The terms ‘partial catholicity’ and ‘part catholic’ are a contradiction in terms,” said Cardinal Burke.
“Confident No” to Abortion More Necessary Than Ever
Today it is more than ever necessary “to confidently say no to abortion and the contraceptive mentality”. In this sense it was even more so a ” resounding no to Communion for politicians, who act against the moral law, in order, to prevent sacrilege through consistent action and to protect the faithful from a public scandal.”
The schools and the families should have no hesitation to “fight against the dictatorship of decadent gender theory. Parents need to watch over the education of their children so that they are educated regarding human sexuality to the truth and to be protected from false messages that are to be implemented by schools and the media,” said Burke. Parents should avoid having their children participate in classes and extracurricular activities that undermine the truth about the nature of man as man and wife. ”
Resist “Decadent Gender Theory”
The Cardinal treated the problem of genetic manipulation in the interview: “It is important to emphasize that the resistance of the Church against in-vitro techniques is based on the conception of the natural law and not to a specific Catholic doctrine. Right reason protects the inviolability of human dignity and the procreation of man. ”
Against abortion and “gay marriage” the Cardinal urged the raising of “the loud voice of protest” and to take to the streets against those governments that violate the natural law. The March for Life in different countries is a very useful tool for it.
Obama Accelerated Spread Perverse Theories
The Obama administration has, said Cardinal Burke, “brought an acceleration of perverse theories”. The policy of “U.S. presidents have become progressively more hostile to Christian civilization. Many faithful Catholics have responded to the ever more increasing persecution. Unfortunately, there is still the impression that a considerable part of the population is not really aware of what is happening at present. ”
In France, the population has responded most clearly: “The logo of Manif pour tous is very strong. It aims at the truth. What the French have implemented is a model for other countries. The citizens must be ready to act,” said Cardinal Burke.
The complete eight-page interview can be obtained from the magazine Radici Cristiane, in Italian.
To read the original posting, click here.
Finally!
Pope Francis is meeting with Obama Thursday. Will he be more like Cardinal Burke or Cardinal Dolan?
Burke or Dolan? He will act like Dolan and then tell us he is really just like Burke…..and we will believe him
Good question.
That Anonymous post to 4unborn was mine.
God bless and protect Cardinal Burke. He is a great priest who is not afraid to preach the truth. The Catholic Church desperately needs more bishops and cardinals like him. The Church must regain lost souls, and once again have her missionary zeal.
I agree Father Karl. God bless you
God bless Cardinal Burke !
It is NOT Pastoral to condone or approve or not correct anyone committing Mortal Sin. If one does, they become a participant in that sin. – CCC 1868.
Bishops and Priests and the Laity – must encourage all literate persons to read the Bible and the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” at home so they will know their faith, and not become involved in relativism, secularism, and materialism.
Any Catholic home without a Catholic Bible and the CCC cannot know the fullness of their Faith.
The Holy Father has ordered that we stir things up. Thank heavens we have Cardinal Burke as an example for being an obedient Catholic.
I think I missed the “order that we stir things up.” So many of the Pope’s statements have been susceptible to media spin supporting (ironically) disobedience. Cardinal Burke, on the other hand, seems never to make statements subject to varying interpretation. At least on the face of it, Cardinal Burke is the one stirring things up. I, for one, would prefer a much more “uncompromising” presentation by Pope Francis.
The Cardinal never makes statements subject to varying interpretation. That is because he understands very well what is happening in the Church and society in general. He knows the elements who are out to destroy the Church and Christianity in general. He knows their tactics and therefore how to avoid making statements that play into their hands – statements which the media can spin with such pleasure to make everyone think the Church is going to jettison all of its immutable teachings, statements which cause so much confusion among faithful Catholics, statements which make mockery
of honest parents and teachers who try to teach the true faith to those in their care.
The Cardinal shares the concerns of so many faithful Catholics who also understand the seriousness of the situation, and that is why they appreciate him. Most of the other bishops act as if they haven’t a clue and could care less, embracing politicians who shamefully manipulate them while pretending to be faithful Catholics. They pay lip service to the Pro Life movement while doing everything in their power to render it as ineffective as possible. They court radical pro abortion democratic politicians because they want money for their various projects while they are blind to the anti-life activities of said pols.
The Holy Father told the Argentinian Youth in Rio to return to their dioceses and “hagan lío”. This means to stir things up in Argentine speak.
Amen to that Fr, Joe. We give thanks!
God Bless Cardinal Burke for having the courage and wisdom to speak out the way he does. It is not a popular message that he proclaims but it is THE TRUTH.
We need more Cardinal Burkes who are unwavering in their faith and fewer Cardinals and Archbishops who agree with the modern day message of Social Justice and relativism. May Jesus, Mary and Joseph bless and protect him.
Thank God for Cardinal Burke. Would that the Cardinals and Bishops resident in the USA were so clear in their teaching.
The government decrees what will be taught in the public schools. The teachers must use the books and materials that are provided, and not bring in unapproved lessons. This has reached a crisis situation with the newly decreed Core curriculum. In many areas, parents have been blocked from even seeing the books and lessons that their children will be taught. If it’s so good for children, why are the school districts hiding it? Now California is trying to mandate pre-kindergarten schools to get the children at an even earlier age. If a child spends most of his waking hours with a government paid teacher from age three or four, that teacher will probably have more control over that child’s thinking and moral training than the parents. There must be more choices of schooling for children than only the public schools; we need a choice of parochial schools, private schools and home schooling. It’s time that parents demand school vouchers to pay for other school choices. Every time this is brought up, the school districts claim that it will deprive public schools of necessary funding. Not true. If the public schools have fewer children to teach, they will not need the same amount of money.
Amen! Sarah. Amen. You have said it.
Thank God for Cardinal Burke. God bless him.
I am afraid I cannot see where the present Holy Father has “ordered that we stir things up.” In fact, the virtual motto of his pontificate, “Who am I to judge?” (excerpt from interview, July, 2013 after World Youth Day in Brazil), demurrs to stand for anything. let alone get “stirred up” about it. Two weeks ago he said that the Church did not need crusaders, especially those who presumably are “obsessed with abortion, gay marriage, and contraception.” (America interview published 9/30/13)—these being only a small selection from the host of the contradictory and downright foolish comments of this pontificate.
No: rather than “stir things up”, this Pope has asked that we “stand down”.
Taken from the book The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis:
“Oh my brother and sister, do not lose your desire fo spiritual progress while time and opportunity still await you! Why do you delay any longer? Get up; now is the time to begin! Say to yourself: “now is the time for good works, now is the time to fight, now is the time to make reparation for the sins of the past.”. When you are troubled, that is the best time for you to merit. Yes, you must pass through fire and water before you come to the place of refreshment.
God bless Cardinal Burk. Our prayers are with him. We appreciate His great witness!
Thank you for posting this.
An English translation of the interview:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/english-exclusive-cardinal-burke-on-faith-the-right-to-life-and-the-family
He is such a holy Cardinal, I pray that someday we will get the blessing to meet him.
Can you get to Louisville, KY in mid-July?
https://www.lifeeternal.org/churchteaches.asp
St. Louis in mid-August?
https://stlouiscatholic.blogspot.com/2014/03/priestly-ordinations-this-august-at-st.html
Anony thank you for the links. Great wealth of info for upcoming events. I don’t think I will be able to fly up those parts of the USA but we can certainly pray and see if our Lord wills.
Cardinal Burke’s words would be better understood and heeded if he were to acknowledge the failure of the contraception teaching. With Western countries, and even some Eastern countries, lowering their birth rates has led to less stress in the family unit with smaller family size and allowed women to participate meaningfully in the workplace of earning. Acknowledging the obvious mistakes would make the Church a stronger and more credible voice for the rest of the teachings that really count, like abortion, instead of circling the wagons around a failed policy like birth control that gives the laity plenty of reason to politely ignore the Magisterium.
The reason women are forced to participate in the workplace is that the economy is crippled in part from a lack of workers due to a low birth rate which is attributable to women working. Chairman Mao (as well as Marx and Engels) championed the woman worker as a means to destroy the nuclear family and advance the cause of communism. With the family destroyed, individual persons are reliant on the state. Forty-seven percent in the U.S. are now on government assistance, which is paid for in large part by women working. Abortion is the fail safe in a contraceptive society which fuels the acceleration to societal destruction in the first place. The idea that contraception has somehow led to freedom is completely wrong; rather, it has been a primary contributor to the economic slavery that is now ravishing the U.S. For an undistorted view of population dynamics which supports the correctness of the Catholic Magisterium on these matters, the website of Steven Mosher’s organization, pop.org, is recommended.
There is no failure of contraceptive teaching. Only the failing of sinners who do their will above God’s will.
We don’t vote on what is and is not sinful in the Catholic Church.
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Remember the majority of Christ’s disciples left Him when they did not like His teaching. He did not change His teaching to accommodate sinners, just because people did not like the teaching.
Jn 6:66-71.
The Church does permit the regulation of births through Natural Family Planning.
CCC: “2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).
CCC: “2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality.
These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom.
In contrast, “every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible” is intrinsically evil:
Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other. This leads not only to a positive refusal to be open to life but also to a falsification of the inner truth of conjugal love, which is called upon to give itself in personal totality. . . . The difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle . . . involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and of human sexuality.”
Good Cause, the, “… failed policy like birth control,” as you term it is precisely that which leads to abortion. Much like the misconception that circumventing nature is will, “…allow(ed) women to participate meaningfully in the workplace of earning.” The MOST meaningful participation a woman can have when she is a mother is the formation of her children, not a career. It’s the false elevation of career and financial earning above the value of human life that is the lie, Good Cause.
And the contraceptive pill kills women by contributing to breast and other female cancers. The estrogen in the sewage from the Pills are polluting our waterways and deforming fish. Good Cause seems to lack any “good cause”.
Contraception is idolatry.
Cardinal Burke – a “Man in Full” – is worthy of our prayers, respect, and support. How to support the brave Cardinal? As he suggests, by speaking out, by protesting, by stating the uncompromising viewpoint of Orthodox Catholicism. Too bad that our Holy Father seems more swayed by the liberal (Cardinal Wuerl), the political (Cardinal Maradiaga), the weak (Cardinal Dolan), and the apostate (Cardinal Kasper), than by Cardinal Burke. Interestingly, Cardinal Burke recently said that he was considering stopping his talks against giving communion to the gravely, and openly, sinful, such as pro-abortion types like Congresswoman Pelosi and VP Biden, given the barrage of abuse he received. But, like all great men, Cardinal Burke decided he must do what was necessary and right. Pray for his survival, which is not at all assured. Perhaps the Pope is simply not aware of how admired is the Cardinal, and little admiration goes to the others (at least from real Catholics). Pray, also, for strength for the gentle Cardinal, as he is not a young man, and pressures on him to “convert” to the “Springtime” side of translating “pro multis” wrongly as “for all” must be almost unbearable: “O glorious Prince of the Heavenly Host, St. Michael The Archangel, defend [Cardinal Burke] in battle and in the terrible warfare that [he is waging . . .” (Slight paraphrase to the original beginning of the prayer of Leo XIII to St. Michael)
Cardinal Burke is, of course, correct, and I appreciate his long witness to Catholic orthodoxy. Yet, last August Cardinal Burke was one of several priests who presided at the Mass for the annual national gathering of the Knights of Columbus. Carl Anderson, the Supreme Knight, and his cronies refuse to discipline public-figure Knights who publicly oppose infallible Church teaching. Cardinal Burke had no business at that Mass. Let him practice the “no compromise” that he preaches.
Cardinal Burke has been living at the Vatican for years. Did you personally inform him about the Knights of Columbus? If not, how do you know what he does and does not know?
Did you tell him that the Knights former advisor, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, specifically told them that they could not kick out those who publically support abortion?
The last sentence of my post was harsh. Suffice it to say that I am disappointed in Cardinal Burke. Scandalous public Knights were an issue long before Cardinal Burke went to the Vatican. It is impossible that he is ignorant of the issue. Cardinal Wuerl is technically correct in that the Knights’ Supreme Council may not make ecclesiastical judgments, but the Council can indeed make social judgments, including the social judgment to expel public scandalous Knights (three of whom enabled gay “marriage” to pass in New York). Although Cardinal Burke did not concelebrate the Mass in question, he was near the altar, just to the left (see photograph at the Rorate Caeli website, 8/9/13). Jeff Mirrus at Catholic Culture has written compellingly on the expulsion of public scandalous Knights as a social judgment.
I CAN ASSURE YOU ALL THAT CARDINAL BURKE IS FULLY AWARE OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SCANDAL!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Kenneth, Did you personally write to Cardinal Burke, (so that you KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt), and if so what was his response to you ?
I have always wished Cardinal Burke could be our Pope! He’s WONDERFUL!!
God Bless Cardinal Burke. He is an inspiration. The Church desparately needs more Priests, Bishops and Cardinals like Cardinal Burke.
I too prayed that His Grace Cardinal Burke was our Pope as well.
What does uncompromising Catholic mean? How does uncompromising Orthodox beliefs intersect with government authority and law?
Does Cardinal Burke mean that Catholics should strive to put as much Catholic doctrine into law as possible?
For example, were the Church to decide that the faithful should wear red, white, and blue beanies with a propeller on top and spin them counter clockwise at noon EST in order to show devotion to the creator, should we strive to make this rule enforced by law?
The vision of police hauling someone away for spinning their propeller clockwise i/0 counter-clockwise, is, of course, a ridiculous image. From this we can extract the principle that any rule that causes no intrinsic harm to another should be enforced by the brutality of law.
Before you say my example is frivolous, I would point to the former demand for Catholics to abstain from meat on Friday. This rule, while having religious significance, has no intrinsic value as a matter of Natural Law. Thus, hauling someone away to jail for eating meat on Friday would not be moral or ethical, since it would be an exercise in frivolous authoritarianism.
Jon J., you are being ridiculous. No one was ever thrown in jail, including during the middle ages, for eating meat on Friday. Somewhere there has got to be a middle ground between the chaos in the Church we have now and what “you” call authoritarianism.
Not being ridiculous. Just establishing that there are indeed elements of Catholic faith that would be immoral to enforce by the power of secular law.
The fish on Friday rule was something I pointed out due to it being a a part of Catholic faith that had no basis Natural Law. I never contended that anyone had been hauled off to jail for violating it, I just said it would be ridiculous (and immoral) to do so.
You have my apologies, Jon J.
Nevertheless, Cardinal Burke would follow the traditional thinking on meat on Fridays, and would not think of throwing people in jail. He is not a Pharisee whatever you think of him.
I meant he is not a Pharisee in the worst sense of the word. There were good Pharisees, too, as St. Paul and Joseph of Arimathea were Pharisees.
JonJ – many of your statements are childish and silly.
But if you read the “CATECHISM of the CATHOLIC CHURCH, Second Edition” you will fine the answers to all of your questions.
The Doctrine of the Faith is contained in the CCC, and all Catholics are obliged to adhere to the Doctrine of the Faith.
Not eating meat on Friday is not in the CCC., nor are your other examples which have nothing to do with Faith and Morals.
“What Catholics REALLY Believe SOURCE”
https://whatcatholicsreallybelieve.com/
The CCC does not address this issue in any kind of depth. Nor am I aware of fully developed Catholic theology on this point.
The issue that I’m concerned with is to what extent is it moral to impose Catholic doctrine on a population by state force?
If we are to be Catholics “without compromise”, I think this is a pertinent question. The CCC says we should respect secular law, but that we are not bound to obey secular law that contradicts the natural law.
However, I can make a clear case that some natural laws would be immoral to enforce by the power of the state, even if they are mortal sins. The above example is just about trying to extract some consistent principles of when we should not try to enforce Catholic rules through the mechanism of the state.
You have it backwards JonJ.
The Church does not try to impose itself on anyone.
When laws are passed that violate Church teaching, the government is imposing itself on the Church and all Catholics. The government is making mandatory laws.
When the government does this, the Church has the right to push back.
Well, Pete, that’s not what Cardinal Burke is asking from us.
For example, Burke pretty clearly wants us to agitate to make abortion illegal. I have no problems with this. I think this has a sound moral basis and is something that should be buttressed by state force.
But, make no mistake, that is imposing Catholic values on society. If we were only concerned with preventing government imposition on Catholics, then we would be satisfied with telling Catholics not to get abortions, and to object to using public money to help others get abortions (such as the Obamacare mandate).
So we can come at this question from the other end. Why is imposing a “no abortions” rule on society by the brute force of law moral and ethical while a “fish on friday” rule is not?
JonJ, the Catholic value of the infinite worth of every human life does not get imposed on people by outlawing abortion, but it is a start.
JonJ, it’s odd that the notion of abstaining from meat on Fridays for the sake of penance (a practice that also builds self-control) seems ridiculous and yet we have the foodie police in schools making a cupcake in the classroom a criminal offense. Must have carrots. Must have celery sticks.
NO intrinsic value? Really?
Yeah. No intrinsic (and lets add) moral value.
In the abstract, if uggah the caveman were to see a portion of fish sitting next to a hunk of meat, there are no moral implications with respect to which one he chooses to eat. Consuming either one is a moral decision—no matter what day of the week it may be.
Now, fish may typically be a wiser choice in 2014 America due to the composition of typical diets, but its not a choice with moral impacts. Meat CAN be part of a healthy human diet, so that eating it on a particular day will not cause harm to others.
JonJ – it’s about sacrifice and self discipline. So saying, our pal Uggah will have to learn the value of self discipline or else get jack-slapped by Mugga Uggah, perhaps a great deal hairier and layered with muscle, when he cannot resist dipping into the meat stores favored by Mugga.
And humans today, for all of our supposed advancement from this age, are so lax in giving up diddly that we ignorantly deceive ourselves that it is impossible. Outrageous. Even cruel. Revert back to a slack-jawed Uggah, barely able to wipe his own drool, thoroughly convinced that he is incapable of resisting meat. Nobody can.
Mugga Uggah, kind of like Satan, gets all kinds of jollies by taunting the pathetic ignoramus. It’s fun. And don’t you dare try to teach Uggah any control. The lesson can come in many forms, but every form (especially meatless Fridays) will come under attack. Not because Muggah gives a hoot about meat per se, but to avoid any teaching whatsoever. And absolutely NO discipline.
Ann, I’m not saying that following the rule has no benefit.
I’m saying it’s a null issue in moral terms. And, I’m using Uggahh the caveman, because it’s easy to presume he exists outside the cultural context of the Catholic Church since he lives thousands of years before the Church even exists.
We can see the lack of intrinsic moral value in the rule in that my spinning the propeller on top of my red, white, and blue beanie at a set time every day, would be just as useful for purposes of self-discipline as abstaining from meat. Or, we could decide that flapping our arms like chicken and singing row, row, row your boat every Sunday at 7 AM EST sharp is a matter of expressing devotion to God.
This act would then be as profound at refraining from meat. If we thought about it enough, I’m sure we could ascribe all kinds of meaning to these acts.
If you want to intellectually dress up this point, I’d say that any posivitist rule created for purposes of Church discipline has no business being enforced by state action.
Personal mortification with regard to what we eat to satisfy bodily urges has intrinsic value, JonJ, unlike spinning the red propeller on top of one’s beanie. Why? Because eating is something that humans do. Fasting or abstaining is not the same as a completely random discipline.
There is no ‘intellectual’ dressing. And nobody is being tossed into prison. Sorry if I’m misunderstanding your pov. But is there any ‘morality’ in this purely subjective society based on whatever that you propose?
It is a mortal sin to eat meat on the Fridays of Lent-for Catholics of age, if done with full knowledge and consent of the will. It must be confessed before receiving Holy Communion. The sin is the disobedience to the Church in it’s Precept that commands us to obey the days of fasting and abstinence.
The whole point is trying to suss out what parts of Catholic culture and the Catholic religion it is both moral and ethical to enforce on the public at large using the power of the state.
Ultimately, using worldly power to compel obedience from others rather than using persuasion means you will, at a certain point, be sending SWAT teams to haul violators off to prison. This is even true with simple things like traffic tickets. Ignore enough of them, and you will eventually be hauled off to jail. If you don’t go willingly, they will send SWAT with a no-knock arrest warrant.
The “Fish on Friday” rule was one extreme: a rule clearly not moral and ethical to enforce by secular law; the abortion rule is, to me, the opposite: something that is very moral and just to enforce by law.
Just because I don’t think “Fish on Friday” should be enforced by state compulsion, doesn’t mean it is worthless. Though, I do say that my purposefully ridiculous examples would be just as good for self-discipline because it would teach obedience. Substitution of one kind of food for another is NOT self-mortification. It’s more about obedience than anything else.
JonJ – THANK YOU! I understand your point. My fault for not having read your post string in its entirety. But hey, I did enjoy delving into Ugga land.
God bless :)
Well continue praying. You just never know.
Here is a good article which explains what the “Manif pour tous” movement in France is all about: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/frances-pro-marriage-manif-pour-tous-a-growing-force-and-a-symbol-of-hope
Two reasons Cardinal Burke is precise to us Americans is that he is an expert in Canon Law and American English. Some of what Pope Francis says often gets lost in the translation and media spin. Nevertheless, he does need to be more precise. Imprecision can be dangerous both to body and soul.
Above all, that of which we are in need at this moment in history are men who, through an enlightened and lived faith, render God credible in this world. The negative testimony of Christians who speak about God and live against him, has darkened God’s image and opened the door to disbelief. We need men who have their gaze directed to God, to understand true humanity. We need men whose intellects are enlightened by the light of God, and whose hearts God opens, so that their intellects can speak to the intellects of others, and so that their hearts are able to open up to the hearts of others.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger April 1, 2005
https://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/politics/pg0143.htm
“We Need CATHOLICS WITHOUT COMPROMISE”
1) Catholic Bible;
2) Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition;
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm
3) Code of Canon Law;
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_INDEX.HTM
4) GIRM (General Instruction of the Roman Missal) for the Ordinary Form of the Mass,
and the 1962 Missal for the Extraordinary Form (Latin) of the Mass.
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20030317_ordinamento-messale_en.html
Code of Canon Law –
“212 §3. According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church
and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful,
without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.”
We must stop merely complaining and act.
An important point in Understanding Pope Francis is the way he is Translated by the secular media from the language of the question and answer – in to Amerikan Media ‘newspeak;
SEE The Pope, the Press and the People 03-28 https://www.churchmilitant.tv/daily/?today=2014-03-28
Thank you for the great link, Michael McDermott. It certainly helped to clear up a lot things.
His Grace Cardinal Burke never needs CLARIFICATION like Bergolio does on a daily basis why is that???????
JonJ, it is against God’s law to kill.
Does that mean that we should not have the laws against killing ?
Keep everything in perspective, rather than being so silly.