In fact, Cardinal Burke said he believes persecution may be looming for the U.S. Church.
“Yes, I think we’re well on the way to it,” he said, pointing to areas of social outreach – such as adoption and foster care – where the Church has had to withdraw rather than compromise its principles.This trend could reach a point where the Church, “even by announcing her own teaching,” is accused of “engaging in illegal activity, for instance, in its teaching on human sexuality.”Asked if he could envision U.S. Catholics ever being arrested for preaching their faith, he replied: “I can see it happening, yes.”
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Cardinal Burke seems to have a very odd sense of religious freedom. Many U.S. states have death penalty legislation. Texas executed 477 inmates since 1976. Catholics in Texas are forced to pay for these executions via their taxes.
Not a peep from the Cardinal.
Yet, being expected to pay for insurance that allows individual employees to have funded birth control is an imposition that he calls persecution? No one has to use it. It's simply available.
Such hyperbole is why the Church is able to contribute so little to public dialog in the U.S.
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