Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen – Cardinal Burke Out of Fashion in Pope Francis’ New Vatican Season

He was yelling about being arrested by Obama in 2011, persecuted for his faith and expecting martyrdom. Little did he expect a shiv in the back from his own kind of the priestly class. His guy – Benedict XVI retires – and all his latest line of fashion rags are oh so no chic no more. 

Well maybe next season Ray for a comeback?

http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/cahirodoherty/was-cardinal-raymond-burke-muzzled-or-silenced-photos-238437211-239670501.html

One of the most conservative voices in the American Catholic Church, and one of the least forgiving, Burke must have thought the world had turned upside down on the morning of December 16.

That day he learned he was losing his influential role in the appointment of bishops – in the same week that the nations most prominent gay rights magazine The Advocate was choosing Pope Francis as their Person of the Year.

It wasn't a coincidence. The new pope has said he wants to move away from the 'obsessive focus' on divisive social issues, and to do that he has begun to muzzle some of the most prominent conservative cultural warriors. So bye bye Cardinal Burke. You're going the way of shoulder pads and leg warmers….

But times change and so does fashion. The fashion under Pope Emeritus Benedict was to relentlessly hit hot button social issues and the people who promoted them. Benedict didn't tailor his conscience to the fabric of the times, but instead remained hopelessly, often hilariously anachronistic. He governed like it was 1406, not 2006. He was a man after Cardinal Burke's heart but in tone and substance, and especially in style, Benedict was a PR disaster for the Church.

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Cardinal Burke, Vatican Mob Boss, Pisses on Savita Halappanavar’s Grave and her Right to Life in Irish Press

Savita Halappanavar - Murdered in Ireland by Irish / Catholic Sharia Law

"The tragic death of Savita Halappanavar has triggered a frenzy amongst abortion activists in a similar way to which deception and lies were used in the case of Norma Jean McCorvey's pregnancy in 1973. What lessons can the Irish government learn from the McCorvey case to prevent the Savita Case becoming Ireland's Roe vs Wade?"

"The death of Savita Halappanavar is indeed tragic. It is, however, contrary to right reason to hold that an innocent and defenceless human life can be justifiably destroyed in order to save the life of the mother. 

"The Irish people, and especially the Irish government, should be very alert to the kind of argumentation which will be used by the secular media and by secular ideologues, in general, claiming that the destruction of the new human life in her womb could have saved the life of Savita Halappanavar and, therefore, would have been justified. Such an argument is absurd in itself. 

"Even though, if the reports are correct, Savita Halappanavar requested an abortion, her request would not have made it right for the law to permit such an act which is always and everywhere wrong."

http://www.catholicvoice.ie/features/2013/02/01/to_decriminalise_abortion_is_a_contradiction_of_the_most_fundamental_principle_of_the_legal_system

Cardinal Burke - Senior Vatican Mob Figure

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Paisley Bishop Tartaglia states that - Gayness causes Pancreatic Disease

Cardinal Ray Burke sponsored protégé bishop Philip Tartaglia of Paisley Scotland, soon to be Archbishop of Glasgow (poor bloody funking Glasgow), has jumped into the medicine science realm and questioned why nobody has questioned why British MP David Cairns died suddenly at age 44.  It was not the disease of Acute Pancreatitis but his Gayness?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178762/Archbishop-Philip-Tartaglia-suggests-MP-David-Cairns-died-44-gay.html

Anger as archbishop suggests MP who died from organ failure at age 44 perished 'because he was GAY'

One of Britain’s most senior Roman Catholics has sparked fury by suggesting an MP and former minister died because he was gay.

The new Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, said society had kept ‘very quiet’ about the death of Labour MP and former Scotland Office minister David Cairns.

Mr Cairns, a former Catholic priest himself, died in May last year at the age of 44 from acute pancreatitis.

But Bishop Tartaglia questioned why his body ‘just shut down’.

(Bishop Tartaglia’s office refused to offer the bishop’s opinion on other world events like the pending outcome of the Galileo Trial in Rome.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cairns_(politician)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Tartaglia

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Vatican Goes To Fox News For Media Salvation

In the middle of media disaster after disaster at the Vatican and all the stabbings in the each others' backs and power plays in Benedict XVI’s brief corrupt rule, apparently it’s Timmy Dolan to the rescue with a recommendation from Knight of Malta Rupert Murdock’s FOX NEWS.

Greg Burkes, who has done no real reporting except as the FOX NEWS Vatican correspondent in the past decade, is a member of Opus Dei.  That means he flagellates himself regularly for spirituality and has trouble dealing with the opposite sex.

All in all, your typical well rounded two dimensional cardboard FOX journalist.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/world/fox-news-reporter-hired-as-vatican-media-adviser-641893/

ROME -- In an effort to shore up its communications strategy amid a widening leaks scandal in a troubled papacy, the Vatican has hired the Fox News correspondent in Rome as a senior communications adviser. 

The correspondent, Greg Burke, 52, who has covered the Vatican for Fox since 2001, will leave the network to help improve and coordinate the Vatican's various communications operations, Mr. Burke and the Vatican spokesman said. 

Some Vatican watchers called the move a power play by media-savvy Americans -- including Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the archbishop of New York and the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops -- inside a Vatican hierarchy run by Italians whose most frequent communications strategy is to accuse their critics of defamation. 

Mr. Burke is a member of the conservative Opus Dei movement, and his hiring underscores the group's role in the Vatican.

As far as I can see he is not a nephew of Cardinal Raymond Burke.  He is more like a temporary consultant like Gotti Tedeschi was at the Vatican Bank.

The insiders in the Vatican will have Greg Burke for lunch. LOL

If anything, all future media press releases supposedly coming from the Vatican will likely originate in Roger Ailes' bunker (he's afraid of colored folks and gays) at 49th Street and Sixth Avenue in New York City, FOX NEWS HQ.

USCCB Approved!

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Cardinal Raymond Burke, Pius XIII, already telling Inept Benedict XVI He is Wrong

Cardinal Ray "Fabulous" Burke - unofficial Vatican Fasionista 

In the ongoing War on Laity, Nuns and Butlers, the next American (CIA) Pope is telling Benedict XVI via his stooge Secretary of State Bertone what is and what is not kosher in Catholic doctrine.

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/03/12036727-new-vatican-documents-leaked-source-calls-popes-butler-a-scapegoat?lite

The third document is a letter to Bertone from Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, an American who is head of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura — in essence, the Vatican's chief justice. It is marked "highly confidential" and registers Burke's dismay that Benedict had approved the liturgy of a controversial lay group known as the NeoCatechumenal Way, which its critics contend violates the prescribed protocol for the Catholic Mass. "I believe that approval of such liturgical innovations ... does not seem consistent with the liturgical teachings of the Pope," Burke wrote.

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Cardinal Burke Fears Arrest - Persecution of American Catholics in U.S. that bad under Obama

Quote of the Day:

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.”

Source: http://blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2011/11/30/cardinal-burke-on-secularism-vs-the-church-it-is-a-war/


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