Burke Warns Oxford Audience of Dictatorship of Relativism

The Tablet (UK) ^ | 5/27/15 | Katherine Backler

[marshmallow]

Cardinal Raymond Burke preached yesterday against a “dictatorship of relativism” which brands Christians“fundamentalists and extremists”.

At a Mass in Oxford to celebrate the quincentenary of the birth of St. Philip Neri, founder and patron of the Oratorians, the cardinal who has just left the Vatican to become patron of the Knights of Malta, compared today's world to the Renaissance world of “corruption” which St. Philip chose to stand apart from, despite his youth and the expectations of his culture. The cardinal encouraged the assembled faithful to take inspiration from the saint in encounters with our own culture, which Burke described as “secularised and therefore corrupt”. He spoke of how “fundamental truths”, like the importance of human life and its “cradle in the family”, based on marriage, have been “ignored, defied, and violated”.

Quoting Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Burke warned of the dangers of “various ideological currents” and of “human deception and trickery which strives to lead us into error”. He continued with a condemnation of what Benedict termed a “dictatorship of relativism which does not recognise anything as definitive and does not recognise any goal except the ego and its desires”. Such a culture wrongly views Christians as fundamentalists and extremists, he said.

[allendale]

If Western culture is to recover from the depths of epicurean, neo pagan hedonism, it will be the faithful remnant who will lead.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Burke for Pope.

[Freee-dame]

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