Comments on: Pope removes Cardinal Burke from Vatican post

By: John Shone

John Shone — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 21:22:02 +0000

Oh that there were many more faithful and courageous servants of God like Cardinal Burke to helm this increasingly storm-tossed Church of ours (sadly, the “storms” are mostly of our own making) that is drifting dangerously in the direction of religious relativism and (false) ecumenism.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:25:56 +0000

I have full confidence that the Church will maintain its teaching in a coherent way regarding what Rocca calls ‘traditional doctrine on controversial moral matters’. Burke’s teaching is not his personal perspective emphasising his own moral stance but is a coherent extrapolation of what the Church has always held. Quite simply if another wishes to enter the discussion with the same depth of understanding of Church teaching he or she merely has to clearly explain in line with what the Church has always held, which is coherent with Divine Revelation, whether those who are validly married are not in a state of adultery when they take another sexual partner apart from their spouse, whether Jesus is not present sacramental in the Eucharist or whether marriage is not the indissoluble state the Church says it is in which case we can make of it what we like. What Burke’s opponents are trying to tell us that the right to have sexual Union according to the depth of our feeling is the only way for an individual not to feel oppressed by the Church. In a nutshell that is what it comes down too…the freedom of sexual expression…but Christian love is utterly different from that I that sexual love is ordered to spousal love only apart from that there is no other context of sexual act that is valid. Christianity is chastity and that is the embarrassing elephant in the room of western libertinism….

By: Wolf Baines

Wolf Baines — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:40:16 +0000

I am 71 and been a Catholic all my life. For the first time, My faith in a pope has been shaken. Pope Francis’ statements and direction are instilling a bad feeling in me because I feel they are adverse to God’s clear intentions in creating a male and female, the special unity in marriage, and consequences resulting when couples do not marry, or they separate and go with another partner.
God also made His feeling clear about deviation from the intended male-female relationships including same-sex relationships. The Sodom and Gomorrah coverage in the Bible further God’s dissatisfaction with such behavior.
Although I would never consider leaving the Catholic Church, I have serious reservations about following the guidance of this pope.

By: Francis

Francis — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:20:56 +0000

God Bless Cardinal Burke for his courage!! We need more clergy like him!!! Unfortunately he is pushed aside for standing up for the Truth and for Our Lord Jesus Christ