Exclusive interview: Cardinal Burke says confusion spreading among Catholics ‘in an alarming way’

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Based on my own experience, it definitely seems like there is a lot of confusion.
 
LSN: So the simple fact of putting that under discussion is already an error.
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CB: Yes. In fact I have asked more than once that these subjects which have nothing to do with the truth about marriage be taken out of the agenda of the synod. [If people want to discuss these questions, fine, but they have nothing to do with the Church’s teaching on marriage.] And the same goes for the question of sexual acts between people of the same sex, and so forth.
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The implication of this statement is that Pope Francis can’t be trusted to lead since he wanted these issues tackled. When I have the opportunity, I urge people to give their full trust to the Pope, pray for him as he constantly asks… but place full trust in the authority he has to guide us on the right path. Too many people, are approaching this with a ‘we’ll wait and see about this Pope before we commit our full Catholic faith to him’, and this is so damaging the faith of young and less mature Catholics more than anything.

Pope Francis can teach us to be fearless and trust in the Lord in a way that faithful Catholics did in the past!
 
I have never been a fan of LSN. This interview is a perfect example. They hardly know how to ask questions without being terribly leading and partial. This isn’t about life and its not very good journalism. I guess the “site” part holds true still. They are a website.

It is good that such a wide range of clerics will be involved to try and wrestle with the way we can best deal with the challenges of the family in this generation. The work between them will be more fruitful than work done with media outlets, I suspect. I suspect that a lot of the confusion that does exist is from the constant transparency we have in the back and forth between differing views. I am glad at least the conclave is still sequestered. At least we do not have interviews popping up when a new pope is chosen.
 
Cardinal Burke was in my Archdiocese … never been a fan of his. :rolleyes:
 
There was one time when St. Peter had to be corrected by St. Paul. So there is a precedent in Sacred Scripture for what Cardinal Burke has been doing. There were times when St. Peter was infallible and other times when he wasn’t. And that’s always been the teaching of the Catholic Church with Her dogma on papal infallibility.
 
LongingSoul said:
The implication of this statement is that Pope Francis can’t be trusted to lead since he wanted these issues tackled. When I have the opportunity, I urge people to give their full trust to the Pope, pray for him as he constantly asks… but place full trust in the authority he has to guide us on the right path. Too many people, are approaching this with a ‘we’ll wait and see about this Pope before we commit our full Catholic faith to him’, and this is so damaging the faith of young and less mature Catholics more than anything.

Pope Francis can teach us to be fearless and trust in the Lord in a way that faithful Catholics did in the past!
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We should be obediant to the Pope, but we should never place our faith in him. The Pope is a man even if a man in very special circumstances; history shows that the Pope is not a worthy place for our “full Catholic faith”. I’m not saying anything against Pope Francis, but one need only look at Pope Benedict IX to see that Office of the Papacy doesn’t come with a free canonization. Our full Catholic faith belongs to God alone.
Melchior Cano:
Now it can be said briefly that those who defend blindly and indiscriminately any judgment whatsoever of the Supreme Pontiff concerning every matter weaken the authority of the Apostolic See; they do not support it; they subvert it; they do not fortify it… . Peter has no need of our lies; he has no need of our adulation.
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DCNBILL said:
It seems like Cardinal Burke is not confused.
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I pray that those Catholics who have been scandalized by not understanding the full import of certain quotes, or those just in confusion be protected in their faith and find refuge in clarity even though it may appear to some to be obscured.
 
I pray nearly every week that I not be placed in a position of having to decide in whom or what I trust.
 
pnewton said:
I have never been a fan of LSN. This interview is a perfect example. They hardly know how to ask questions without being terribly leading and partial. This isn’t about life and its not very good journalism. I guess the “site” part holds true still. They are a website.

It is good that such a wide range of clerics will be involved to try and wrestle with the way we can best deal with the challenges of the family in this generation. The work between them will be more fruitful than work done with media outlets, I suspect. I suspect that a lot of the confusion that does exist is from the constant transparency we have in the back and forth between differing views. I am glad at least the conclave is still sequestered. At least we do not have interviews popping up when a new pope is chosen.
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I agree with you about LSN. In reading the interview, it’s clear that their “questions” would never have been allowed in a court, they are so leading and agenda-driven. Is it fair to wonder what role these continuing publicity “interviews” by the cardinal in fact add to the perceived “confusion?”
 
cradlecatholic5 said:
Cardinal Burke was in my Archdiocese … never been a fan of his. :rolleyes:
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Bishops aren’t supposed to be in it to win popularity contests. Was Jesus popular? Yes. But then the crowds crucified him because Jesus was telling them the truth, and they didn’t want to hear it.
 
livingwordunity said:
There was one time when St. Peter had to be corrected by St. Paul. So there is a precedent in Sacred Scripture for what Cardinal Burke has been doing. There were times when St. Peter was infallible and other times when he wasn’t. And that’s always been the teaching of the Catholic Church with Her dogma on papal infallibility.
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Ah, but which is Peter and which is Paul, in this case? This is the advantage of having many voices. In the end, I like to trust first, the one who is actually Peter, and let any “rebuking” trickle down, especially when there is a synod being held to hash out the differing views.
 
Seraphignatius said:
Our full Catholic faith belongs to God alone.
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We’ve heard more than once in our recent homilies that the Church belongs solely to Christ and as teaching states, each of the faithful members of his Body, is a bride “betrothed” to Christ the Lord so as to become but one spirit with him."
 
Seraphignatius said:
We should be obediant to the Pope, but we should never place our faith in him. The Pope is a man even if a man in very special circumstances; history shows that the Pope is not a worthy place for our “full Catholic faith”. I’m not saying anything against Pope Francis, but one need only look at Pope Benedict IX to see that Office of the Papacy doesn’t come with a free canonization. Our full Catholic faith belongs to God alone.
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One thing that distinguishes us from the breakaway Christian denominations, is the role of the Pope in our faith. Having a Catholic faith means submitting in obedience to the guidance of whoever sits in that seat. People will often say ‘well there have been bad popes’ but we know that the Pope is protected by the Holy Spirit from teaching error. Whoever he is, if he is not a servant of God… he cannot mislead you. We have the freedom and privilege of giving our full Catholic faith over to the guidance of the Pope. To regard his authority with caution and decide on a course of picking and choosing what we will accept from him, is to not have faith in the great gift Christ gave us. The ‘rock’ that can never lead us astray.
 
pnewton said:
Ah, but which is Peter and which is Paul, in this case? This is the advantage of having many voices. In the end, I like to trust first, the one who is actually Peter, and let any “rebuking” trickle down, especially when there is a synod being held to hash out the differing views.
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Catechism of the Catholic Church, and 2,000 years of Church Tradition, says that capital punishment is sometimes justified. But Pope Francis has recently said that it is never justified. This puts Catholics in a situation where we have to figure out which one to go with and then make a choice between the two.
 
livingwordunity said:
Catechism of the Catholic Church, and 2,000 years of Church Tradition, says that capital punishment is sometimes justified. But Pope Francis has recently said that it is never justified. This puts Catholics in a situation where we have to figure out which one to go with and then make a choice between the two.
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He said it is inadmissible nowadays. That doesn’t mean it was always inadmissible.
 
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