Cardinal Burke: Biden ‘Is Not a Catholic in Good Standing,’ He ‘Gives Scandal to Everyone’
By Alexander Watson | October 8, 2020 | 3:44pm EDT
Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American and a member of the highest court at the Vatican, said that Catholic politicians who support abortion should not approach for Communion at Mass and added that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is “not a Catholic in good standing.”
Burke further said that Biden “gives scandal to everyone” because he claims he is a “devout Catholic” and yet promotes abortion.
Cardinal Burke, who is the former archbishop of St. Louis, Mo., made his remarks in an interview with Catholic Action for Faith and Family, which was quoted in the Catholic News Agency on Sept. 29.
Joe Biden “is not a Catholic in good standing and he should not approach to receive Holy Communion,” said Cardinal Burke, who was ordained a bishop by Pope St. John Paul II.
“This is not a political statement, I don’t intend to get involved in recommending any candidate for office,” said Burke, “but simply to state that a Catholic may not support abortion in any shape or form because it is one of the most grievous sins against human life, and has always been considered to be intrinsically evil, and therefore to in any way support the act is a mortal sin.”
Biden “has not only been actively supporting procured abortion in our country but has announced publicly in his campaign that he intends to make the practice of procured abortion available to everyone in the widest possible form and to repeal the restrictions on this practice which have been put in place,” said the cardinal.
“So, first of all, I would tell him not to approach Holy Communion out of charity toward him, because that would be a sacrilege, and a danger to the salvation of his own soul,” said Burke.
“But also he should not approach to receive Holy Communion because he gives scandal to everyone,” said the cardinal. “Because if someone says, ‘Well, I’m a devout Catholic’ and at the same time is promoting abortion, it gives the impression to others that it’s acceptable for a Catholic to be in favor of abortion and, of course, it’s absolutely not acceptable.”
“It never has been, it never will be,” he added.
Explaining scandal, Cardinal Burke said, “If people were perhaps questioning in their mind about abortion, and they see this man who pronounces himself to be a devout and he’s promoting abortion in the strongest possible way, this leads people into error, thinking, ‘well it must be morally acceptable to commit abortion,’ and so the person then bears responsibility — not only the person who gives the scandal, not only for his own wrong actions in supporting abortion but also for leading others into thinking that abortion is acceptable.”
“I can’t imagine that any Catholic wouldn’t know that abortion is a grievous sin,” said the cardinal. “But if they don’t, once they’ve been told, then they either have to cease to support abortion or accept the fact they are not a Catholic in good standing and therefore should not present themselves for Holy Communion.”
It is the handmaidens
working for Planned Parenthood who have joked about selling
aborted baby body parts. And it was Kamala Harris, when she was A.G. of
California, who viciously prosecuted the young man who exposed that scandal,
after she had received a hefty donation from Planned Parenthood.
The Fascist America That Kamala Promises
By Jack Cashill
I do not use the
term “fascist” lightly, but when even the liberal Los Angeles Times opens an
article with a paragraph like the one that follows, I think fascist is apt:
“California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris is drawing fire
from supporters of an anti-abortion activist whose undercover videos and
identity cards were seized by the state Department of Justice this week after
Harris’ political campaign sought to drum up support for Planned Parenthood.”
The activist is
David Daleiden, 27 at the time of the April 2016 raid on his Huntington Beach
apartment. In 2016, Harris was running for California’s open U.S. Senate seat.
At the time of the raid, Harris’s campaign website was asking supporters “to
take a stand and join Kamala in defending Planned Parenthood.”
In the course of
Planned Parenthood’s history, no one had presented a greater threat to the
organization’s federal funding than the young journalist whose apartment
Harris’s agents had just raided.
In the way of
background, Daleiden and his partner Sandra Merritt had gone undercover for two
years posing as the brokers in the fetal tissue market.
In July 2015
Daleiden started dropping the undercover videos the pair had shot at Planned
Parenthood clinics in several states, including California.
The combination
of callow words and cruel images, repeated in one video after another, rocked
Washington. The timing was good. The 2016 presidential campaigns were revving
up, and many Republicans spoke out about what they saw.
“The
out-of-sight, out-of-mind mantra that propelled the pro-choice movement for
decades is forever gone,” Kellyanne Conway, then a Republican pollster, told
the New York Times. Reeling from
the blow, even the Times had
to wonder whether “the new offensive will succeed in crippling Planned
Parenthood.”
Obama, the first
president to speak at Planned Parenthood’s national convention, kept his
distance from the hubbub. An indifferent media got no closer to the president
than his press secretary, Josh Earnest.
On July 30,
2015, a young reporter asked Earnest if Obama had seen the video that was
released on that day. The video in question begins
with interview footage of harried Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards
insisting, “It’s not a fee. It’s not a fee. It’s just the cost of trans-
mitting this material.” The undercover footage that follows undercuts
everything Richards said.
“We don’t want
to get called on, you know, selling fetal parts across states,” she jokes,
unaware she is being recorded. This interview is followed by an on-site review
of actual body parts with the doctor and a clinician.
What is
impressive is how well Daleiden and Merritt play their roles as buyers. What is
unnerving is how casually the doctor and clinician pick through trays of baby
parts -- a heart, a brain, a lung -- while talking about the commercial
viability of the “fetal cadaver.”
Running for
president at the time, Hillary Clinton could not afford to be so dismissive.
Although her first instinct was to attack the video producers, Clinton herself
began to waver as each new video dropped.
“I have seen
pictures from [the videos] and obviously find them dis- turbing,” Clinton told
the New Hampshire Union Leader late that
July. No one knew better than Clinton, however, what overwhelming force Planned
Parenthood and its allies in the Democratic-media complex could bring to bear
against a pair of citizen journalists.
For immediate
assistance, Planned Parenthood turned to the well-connected fixers at -- where
else? -- Fusion GPS. The beleaguered organization contracted with Fusion to
review the unedited footage Daleiden had posted online.
Armed with a
ten-page report from Fusion, Richards went on the offensive. Convincing people
they did not see what they saw would not be easy, but the networks made the
task possible by refusing to show the actual videos.
As to the
newspapers and online journals, they did their bit by leaving the assessment of
the videos to Fusion GPS. Faced with real journalists doing real work, the
Obama courtiers reflexively turned stenographer. They welcomed this “forensic
study” as heartily as they would Fusion GPS’s notorious “Steele dossier” a year
later.
To complete the
rout, the ambitious Harris had her agents seize Daleiden’s multiple computers
and hard drives as well as the materials he had gathered from Planned
Parenthood conferences.
Alexandra
Snyder, the director of the Life Legal Defense Foundation, told the Los
Angeles Times that
Harris’s “loyalty to Planned Parenthood” required “her to turn a blind eye to
the organization’s criminal activities.” Harris did more than turn a blind eye.
“Instead,” said Snyder, “she has launched an inquisition into David Daleiden.”
In 2017,
Harris’s successor as attorney general, Xavier Becerra, filed 15 felony charges
against Daleiden and Merritt and has tied them up in court ever since.
In May 2020,
Daleiden filed suit against Becerra and Harris, claiming Harris violated his
civil rights by conspiring with Planned Parenthood to silence him.
In Kamala’s
America, killing and dismembering unborn babies and marketing their body parts
is perfectly acceptable. Reporting on the practice is criminal. If that is not
fascistic, I am not sure I know what is.
Jack Cashill’s
new book, Unmasking Obama: The Fight to
Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency, is widely
available. See also www.cashill.com.
Handmaid's
Tale? Leftist handmaidens destroyed the USA
Many rational people who
attempted to read Margaret Atwood's dystopian The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
found it a big yawn. But the left loved it. So Hulu (a
Disney company partly owned by Comcast), naturally made a mini-series of it.
Now we have the
left opining, on September 21, that
people like Amy Barrett were the inspiration for that totalitarian
nightmare. "Amy Coney Barrett, a favorite to be President
Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is
affiliated with a type of Christian religious group that served as inspiration
for Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale."
I suggest that the boot
is on the other foot! It has been the women of the left who are
first and foremost the handmaidens responsible for the appalling state of the
nation and its totalitarian, "woke" culture — and their narcissist
soy boys like former President Obama, Trudeau of Canada, Newsom of California,
et al. Looked at in this light, Joe Biden is the perfect Democrat
candidate! As a white, ineffectual, imbecilic male, ready to drop
off the perch, he is exactly what Democrat women love — and why they detest his
opposite, Donald Trump.
Women now have enormous political power through
sheer numbers. Although there has been
no female president as yet, women are heavily represented at all levels of the
political, legal, bureaucratic, educational, health, H.R., and local county
sectors. Women are a determinative voting segment, and younger women
have been educated to identify with the left. Therefore, it is their policies,
and their values alone, that have been enacted, including
claiming the murder of their unborn children as their natural right.
It is the handmaiden
founders of Black Lives Matter who have denigrated women's traditional
role (part of the "oppressive patriarchy") and who have encouraged
street violence.
It is the handmaidens
working for Planned Parenthood who have joked about selling
aborted baby body parts. And it was Kamala Harris, when she was A.G. of
California, who viciously prosecuted the young man who exposed that scandal,
after she had received a hefty donation from Planned Parenthood.
So what area of the
dystopian, censored "woke" society we now find ourselves in are women
not responsible for? The Deep State? Oh,
no! We have the corruption of HRC — and scandal after scandal
involving female politicians and officeholders, day after day. The
latest is handmaid Ilhan Omar's treacherous ballot-harvesting in
Minneapolis.
Professor Janice
Fiamengo's YouTube "Fiamengo Files" (now very heavily censored) give
witness to the diabolical hatred of men that characterizes these feminist
handmaidens. And we have Jane Fonda telling us why women are at the
forefront of the unscientific climate change hoax, where men are accused
of raping Gaia! Nancy
Pelosi, in an attempt to distract attention from her hairdo hissy fit and the
left's mismanagement of forest areas, has told us Mother Nature is angry. Nor can we
overlook that handmaiden of Gaia, the squinty-eyed Greta Thunberg. As for
globalism, the U.N. says women are key to that supra-nationalist organization's
sustainable development goals. Translate: New World Order.
Teenage handmaidens are
at the forefront of the LGBT+ gender revolution, as revealed by Abigail Shrier
in her book Irreversible Damage: The
Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. The health industry is on board and immediately
affirms the young handmaidens' self-diagnosis, frequently entailing drastic
surgery and hormonal intervention.
One can only ask what
else remains for these handmaidens to destroy. Virtually
nothing. Traditional hearth and home
demolished. Constitutional law shredded. Civil war
lit. Gender confusion. A.I.-human interface
planned. They have, with the help of their male enablers and those
who do not see themselves as the beneficiaries of dead, white males, chopped
out, erased, expunged, and revoked the Western heritage, root and
branch. Yet, having accomplished all of this, they are
unhappy. It's not enough. There are still those who dare
to protest against them, like the illustrious signatories of the recent Philadelphia Statement, courteously requesting a return to freedom of speech in the
cause of liberal democracy. They will be canceled out because the Amazon
handmaids have debauched the language as well, using the terminology of liberal
democracy to mean its opposite (exactly as their buddies, the Chinese, do).
But there is
hope. We know from history that moral decay eventually leads to
societal collapse — and the opportunity to rebuild anew. I believe
we may be witnessing not the beginning of a new nightmare, but the final death
agonies of the feminist dystopia, paralleled in the fate of Joe Biden.
Intrinsic to the human
psyche is a foundational desire to adore the Eternal Good — which many call
"God." When that is replaced by the lust for power, as
Faust testified, hell enters. In making that Faustian bargain, by exchanging
womanly graces for vengeful power, the handmaids sowed the seeds of their own
destruction. That is the chaos we now behold.
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