Yer all pagans!
Cardinal Raymond Burke, best known for
getting demoted from his high-post at the Vatican and being put into a "largely ceremonial" role as cardinal patron of the Knights and Dames of Malta, is spewing his special brand of
hatred again:
Cardinal Raymond Burke, who was recently moved from a senior role in the Vatican to be patron of the Order of Malta, told the Newman Society, Oxford University’s Catholic Society, last night that he struggled to understand “any nation redefining marriage”.
Visibly moved, he went on: “I mean, this is a defiance of God. It’s just incredible. Pagans may have tolerated homosexual behaviours (sic), they never dared to say this was marriage.”
This isn't a surprise in as much as Cardinal Burke is crazy conservative and constantly says the bigoted kinds of stuff and espouses the terrible ideas of Pope Francis's predecessor Pope Benedict. Like his opposition to altar girls because they have cooties.
“Young boys don’t want to do things with girls. It’s just natural,” Burke said in an interview published on Monday (Jan. 5). “I think that this has contributed to a loss of priestly vocations.
“It requires a certain manly discipline to serve as an altar boy in service at the side of (a) priest, and most priests have their first deep experiences of the liturgy as altar boys,” the former archbishop of St. Louis told Matthew James Christoff, who heads a Catholic men’s ministry called the New Emangelization Project.
Cardinal Burke is a big follower of the previous Pope Benedict and Benedict's special brand of super-duper-molestation-protecting Catholicism.
In the interview, Burke also blamed gay clergy for the church’s sexual abuse crisis, saying priests “who were feminized and confused about their own sexual identity” were the ones who molested children.
The good news is Cardinal Burke is mostly a paper tiger these days. The bad news is he still voices an opinion held by
many in the Catholic Church.
He told the audience that he was “constantly” telling his nieces and nephews to keep their family computers in public areas of the house so that their children would not “imbibe this poison that’s out there.”
Unfortunately for Burke he doesn't realize that he's answering his own question as to why young people are running away from the Church. It's statements like that that show young people how far away many officials in the Church have run from the people.