Brought to you by pray latin.com makers of prayer cards featuring complete English phonetic renderings of Latin pronunciations Cardinal Burke gave an interview to the National Catholic register that is really illustrative of the state of the church today we are told in our time that the highest value
To be prized is unity and listening it’s a form of institutionalized indifference indifference to indifference to the truth and indifference to the well-being of others wrapped up in a concern for making others feel welcome it’s very secular thinking really and it’s all a contradiction and here we see in two
Seemingly different topics of contrast is shown Cardinal Burke has a book coming out soon on the valid reception of the Eucharist kind of a hot button Topic in the church these days and in his book he covers a widespread disregard for what the church has always said about validly receiving the
Eucharist which we will now compare with what Francis has said on that topic and how it has impacted the ctive sin that’s going on now in Rome so let’s dive right into the story and we get the get it from the National Catholic register with this headline Cardinal Burke publishes
Book on greater reverence for the Eucharist widespread reception of communion with insufficient worthiness concerns me greatly says the prefect ameritus of the apostolic signatura just a reminder the National Catholic register is the print arm of EWTN as a fairly moderate news source the article is an interview conducted by
Edward Penton who usually gives some fairly spicy news on Twitter regarding the C of sin and a few other big church headlines here he is interviewing Cardinal Burke in relation to a new book that the Cardinal is having published soon on again treating the Eucharist with the reverence and respect that you
Would think we would actually give it given that we Proclaim as Catholics that Jesus Christ is truly present in the Eucharist IST all too many Catholics receive our Lord in the Eucharist in the most irreverent manner imaginable all permitted by modernist Rome and this has been the case for decades as predates
Francis by a long time this problem Cardinal Burke has been concerned with this at since at least 2004 because he was the one who told then Senator kery a self-described Catholic not to receive Holy Communion in his dicese because of his dedication to the molok ritual the
Response he received from his own fellow American Bishops was telling from the article quote because I had seen a number of Catholic politicians who presented themselves and wanted to present themselves as Catholics promote legislative programs contrary to the church’s teaching and to do this publicly and yet they were approaching
To receiving Holy Communion this concerned me greatly Senator Kerry when he was running for president was very open in his support of the molok ritual and I simply informed him that if he came to the arch dicese of St Louis where I was the bishop he should not approach to receive communion this
Caused some bit of a Kur fuffle as they say but it was obvious I wasn’t taking some kind of extreme position and in fact when he came to St Louis on a Sunday he spoke in a Baptist Church some Bishops were concerned about what I had
Done and some of them said well you can’t do these things so simply it was clear to me that this is what the church had always practiced beginning with St Paul the 11th chapter of the first letter to the Corinthians so I said to myself I’m going to sit down and I’m
Going to study the whole canonical tradition and obviously with attention to to the example of the Saints and the teachings in scripture end quote Cardinal Burke is then asked about the widespread belief people have today that it’s okay to receive even when you have unconfessed mortal sins this
Practice is a direct contradiction of what the church says based on St Paul’s warnings about invalidly receiving the Eucharist that Cardinal Burke referenced there but it’s true most people are aware that the lines for confession at most parishes are relatively short and confession times are relatively few as a
Consequence while the line for the Eucharist every single Sunday is very very long while we can’t point the figure at any one person in line for receiving communion we can deduce that most Catholics are rarely have ever going to confession and that’s a very real problem in the church today because
It means that to borrow a phrase from St Paul it means that most Catholics are eating and drinking their own condemnation kind of a serious thing Cardinal Burke hints at this in his response to the question about this quote yes people have developed and I
Saw this as a young priest the idea that well if you’re at Mass you go to communion even when sometimes people were in serious sin and he would when you would teach that they were in a state of grave serious sin they were surprised I think there has been a
Genuine loss of respect for the Blessed Sacrament because it’s not understood that this is the body of Christ for instance if a person is in the state of mortal sin say they’ve committed adultery that’s not a public obstinate sin at least not at least normally it
Wouldn’t be but it is a mortal sin so Canon 915 those obstinately persevering and manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion doesn’t apply to them directly but Canon 916 does a person who is conscious of grave sin is not to receive Holy Communion without having been to
Confession they should realize that this is a grievous sin and not receive communion until they’ve confessed it and been absolved and of course that includes a firm purpose of amendment end quote so bur’s new book is is interesting on this because overall of this is a repeated statement Francis has
Made over the past few years that he has never denied anyone the Eucharist and that the church shouldn’t deny anyone the Eucharist either this stems of course from Arch Bishop cord Leone Banning a rather high-profile Catholic politician who I usually refer to as lady molok from receiving the Eucharist because she is a
Powerful advocate for the molok ritual hence her nickname and has publicly denied the teaching of the church on this issue Francis responded by saying this headline from the National Catholic Reporter Pope Francis says he has never denied communion warns against politicizing Eucharist the story broke a couple of
Years ago and was published by the National Catholic Reporter which is a fringe modernist outlet that pushes Francis to be even more radical than he already publicly is it’s not the same outlet that publishing Cardinal Burke’s book on the Eucharist to be clear these are two different news outlets
But note how different the positions of Francis and Cardinal Burke are here quote Pope Francis on September 15th said the question of whether molok worshiping Catholic politicians should receive communion is pastoral and warned against Bishops and Priests who weighed into politics what should a Shepherd do be a shepherd and not going around
Condemning or not condemning the pope said they must be a shepherd with God’s style and God’s style is closeness compassion and tenderness Francis said he did not want to specifically address the particular situation in the United States but added that quote if we look at the history of
The church we will see that every time the Bishops did not act as Shepherds it was a quote unquote problem Francis was asked whether he had ever denied the Eucharist to someone who presented themselves for communion and he said never no I have have never denied the
Eucharist to anyone to anyone he said I don’t know if someone came to me under these conditions but I have never refused them the Eucharist since the time I was a priest he went on to share a humorous anecdote of celebrating Mass on one occasion at a nursing home
Afterwards an elderly woman thanked him for communion adding that she was one of our so-called Elder Brothers in the faith those who are not in the Community cannot take communion like this Hebrew lady he said but the Lord wanted to reward her and I did not know it
Perception of communion said Francis is quote linked to the community well there may be those that are temporarily outside of the Church community he said they are quote sons of God and they need our closeness our pastoral closeness a Shepherd can decide it with the style of
God he added if if you are tender as a person this is just a theory but being pastors the pastors know how to act in every moment and quote it’s a lot of word salad there honestly but not only has he never denied anyone communion he doesn’t regret giving the Eucharist to
Someone who isn’t even a Christian who is matter who is a member of a group who publicly denies his divinity presumably she denies the Divinity of Christ as Messiah and as such holds rather troubling views about him that are typical of our so-called Elder brethren
In the faith just go look it up Francis and apparently doesn’t regret giving her the Eucharist now Pope in history until recent times that it was a great sacrilege to let anyone not in a state of grace or who wasn’t even a member of the church to receive the Eucharist now
Apparently it’s not a big deal it’s not a Catholic view of the Eucharist to be clear but this debate is happening now in the Senate of sin the provisions in a moris litzia for communion for the civy remarried are being deliberated now at the Senate of sin the CID is
Deliberating the this under the guise of unity that communion here possibly meaning fraternity and Brotherhood and other stone cutter language that permeates the Senate that all of this will help heal a fractured world this Unity will absolutely require giving the Eucharist to those who would not traditionally have been able to
Receive the Eucharist now the story shows this perfectly and was published about a month ago on the US ccb’s news site with this headline so brace for for this one headline sended call to communion can help a fractured World Theologian says how can we be more fully
Assign and instrument of Union with God and of the unity of all Humanity was the question members of the Assembly of the Senate of Bishops began discussing October 9th with help from two theologians note the humanitarian focus on the Senate and think about that in the very personal relationship receiving
Our Lord in the Eucharist represents there can be no greater form of intimacy in this life than receiving the Eucharist validly it is truly the most individual moment in our lives if we are properly prepared to receive the Lord from the article quote the Catholic church has called to
Be an instrument of communion with God and unity among all people but requires Grace and learning to bear with reality gently generously lovingly and courageously for the peace and salvation of the whole world a theologian told the assembly of the Senate of Bishops communion is the beauty of diversity and
Unity in a modern world that tends towards both homogenizing and fractur fracturing communion is a language of beauty a Harmony of unity and plurality said Anna Roland a professor of Catholic Social thought and practice at Durham university in England as CED participants began work on the second section or module of the
Assembly’s working document October 9th their disc discussions about promoting communion with God and with others were preceded by Reflections offered by Roland and by Dominican father Timothy Radcliffe a theologian and former Master of the Dominican order carinal jeanclaude holler relator general of the Senate introduced the module by telling
Participants that a key question from the Cid’s Preparatory process which included listening sessions on the parish Dios and National and Continental levels was quote how can we become more fully a sign and instrument of Union with God and of the unity of all Humanity God who is Father Son and Holy
Spirit is the quote basis of all communions he said and quote this God who is love loves the whole of creation every single creature and every human being in a special way all are invited to be part of the church the Cardinal said in deep communion with his father
Through the Holy Spirit Jesus extended this communion to all Sinners are we ready to do the same are we ready to do this with groups which might irritate us because their way of being might seem to threaten our identity end quote a bunch of emotional nonsense but Unity is the
Primary value for the modernists but when you’re state of grave sin you’re not even in Union with the church anymore and if you’re not a member of the church you’re not in Union with her either those are timeless teachings of the faith yet when you carry unconfessed
Mortal sins you are cut off from the depository of divine grace this is something that’s not even controversial it’s something to be taken seriously though the words of Burke here illustrate perfectly this entirely different worldview of Francis and the modernist that is separate from the Catholic worldview Unity for its own
Sake is not something to be prized that’s what happens when you compare cardinal Burke’s words to to francis’s truth and grace are and it’s only with the truth of the gospel and the grace of Christ that we can approach the altar worthily without that we’re playing with spiritual
Fire so what do you think of this Cardinal Burke’s book sound like it’s interesting you think it’ll just come and go and have very little impact you wonder why the sin of sin is not actually deliberating at all on valid reception of the Eucharist let me know what you think of
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