![]() Historic fetal cell lines were in fact derived from two elective abortions that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. ![]() At the same time, it must be clear that vaccination cannot be imposed upon citizens in a totalitarian manner.” While Trump was vowing that the vaccines would be developed in record time with Operation Warp Speed, Burke was already putting arguments in place to oppose them, seeing an opportunity to boost his anti-abortion bonafides among traditionalist Catholics. The thought of the introduction of such a vaccine into one’s body is rightly abhorrent. Burke chose Our Lady of Guadalupe as the patron of his shrine for this reason-his opposition to abortion is a key to his identity, and to his response to the Covid-19 pandemic.Įarly on, in a May 2020 address to the Rome Life Forum, Burke said “It is never morally justified to develop a vaccine through the use of cell lines of aborted fetuses. Her slightly rounded stomach is interpreted by some as pregnancy and the “human sacrifice” of the native people who lived in Mexico before the arrival of Catholic Spaniards is cast as equivalent to the “human sacrifice” of abortion. In the last several decades, Our Lady of Guadalupe has been re-interpreted as “Patroness of the Unborn” by Pro-Life Catholic groups. ![]() This shrine was not made in order to serve the spiritual needs of Mexican and Mexican-American Catholics (of which there are very few in that part of Wisconsin), but as a massive intra-Catholic identity shrine proclaiming the truth of Burke’s own version of traditionalist Catholicism. Much of Burke’s religious activity centers around the impressive Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI which Burke founded and which was built with the help of large donations of (largely unnamed) wealthy traditionalist Catholic donors. Since then there’s been no love lost between these two men. Burke felt that the Synod was too accommodating to divorced Catholics seeking annulment and left room for them to receive Holy Communion “something that would, in fact, constitute a change in Church teaching, which is impossible.” After the Synod, in a highly unusual move, Francis quickly demoted Burke, naming him to the ceremonial position of Cardinal Patron of the Knights and Dames of Malta. He clashed early on with Pope Francis, expressing his displeasure in numerous media outlets with the agenda of the Pope’s synod on the family, which took place in October of 2014. Louis in 2004 before Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI summoned him to Rome to serve as prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial authority in the Catholic Church (apart from the pope himself). Though so gravely ill that he was unable to breathe on his own, an updated tweet from his account insisted that “Doctors are encouraged by his progress.” Progressing to a ventilator within four days of Covid-19 diagnosis is not, in fact, encouraging, but like Trump, the prominent traditionalist bishop and vaccine skeptic doesn’t make mistakes, and like Trump his survival (as of this writing Burke remains hospitalized but no longer on a ventilator or in the ICU) thanks to extraordinary medical attention, is being attributed to his special mission as one of God’s chosen messengers.Ĭardinal Burke, 72, was born in the small town of Richland Center, WI and served as the bishop of the small diocese of La Crosse, WI (his home diocese) from 1995-2004. Earlier this month Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke announced to the world that he had contracted Covid-19 in a strangely triumphant August 10 tweet “Praised be Jesus Christ! I wish to inform you that I have recently tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.” By August 14 he’d been sedated and placed on a ventilator at an undisclosed Wisconsin hospital.
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