Posted on 05/14/2016 5:14:34 AM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, May 11, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) -- Cardinal Raymond Burke stated on the weekend that faithful Catholics must “resist” a perspective within the Church that seeks to undermine the truths of the Catholic faith regarding the indissolubility of marriage and the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The general theme of the talk was “Martyrdom for the Faith in Our Times".
“Of particular concern to me is a growing mundane perspective, a man-centered and world-centered perspective, especially in the Church,” he said, adding that the perspective expresses itself in a “secular understanding of the divine realities.”
He was speaking to pro-life and pro-family leaders gathered at the Roman Life Forum conference in Rome on May 7.
“For example, today in the Church, there are those who refer to the objective reality of the grace of marriage as merely an ideal to which we more or less seek to conform ourselves,” he said.
Last month Pope Francis released his post-synodal exhortation on the family, titled Amoris Laetitia. In his first response to the document, Cardinal Burke had taken issue with the frequent use of the word "ideal" in reference to Christian teaching on marriage.
In Amoris Laetitia Pope Francis wrote, “At times we have also proposed a far too abstract and almost artificial theological ideal of marriage, far removed from the concrete situations and practical possibilities of real families,” adding that this “excessive idealization” of marriage “has not helped to make marriage more desirable and attractive, but quite the opposite.”
At another place Pope Francis suggests that “many people feel that the Church’s message on marriage and the family does not clearly reflect the preaching and attitudes of Jesus.”
In his critique Cardinal Burke had observed,
"Such a description of marriage can be misleading. It could lead the reader to think.......
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Of course it is. Yes, Burke will surely put an end to this Crisis. /s
Yes, this is a common complaint, that the Heretic has not been opposed to his face. It seems to me this may be not cowardice but a tactic. I am not a hunter, but it’s my understanding that in pursuit of game, it’s often best to provoke the quarry into breaking cover so as to get a better shot. Burke and some other big guns are trying to flush him out into the open, I suspect.
Even if it’s the pope.
Maybe.
Alternative theory: Burke and every other Catholic knows that there is nothing he can do but wait for the biological solution.
As if the next Modernist sitting in the Seat will be any better.
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