Cardinal Burke urges Pope to take hot-button issues "off the table" for next family synod
Addressing more than 300 delegates at a family and marriage conference, organised by Catholic Voice, in Limerick on November 15, Cardinal Raymond Burke said Communion for the divorced and remarried, cohabitation and same-sex marriage had distracted the work of the synod in October.
“Even within the Church there are those who would obscure the truth of the indissolubility of marriage in the name of mercy.” He recommended that next year’s synod devote itself to promoting the church’s teaching on marriage.
“I fail to be able to comprehend how — if marriage is indissoluble and someone is living in a state contradicting this indissolubility of marriage — the person can be admitted to holy Communion.”
Burke urged the Catholic faithful to write to Pope Francis and Vatican and Irish church officials to make their views known.
Criticizing the “so-called contraceptive mentality,” he warned it was “anti-life” and blamed it for “the devastation that is daily wrought in our world by the multi-million dollar industry of pornography” and the “incredibly aggressive homosexual agenda,” which could only result in “the profound unhappiness and even despair of those affected by it.”
To applause, the cardinal said he refused to use the term traditional marriage for the marriage of a man and a woman: “Is there any other kind of marriage?"
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“Even within the Church there are those who would obscure the truth of the indissolubility of marriage in the name of mercy.” He recommended that next year’s synod devote itself to promoting the church’s teaching on marriage.
“I fail to be able to comprehend how — if marriage is indissoluble and someone is living in a state contradicting this indissolubility of marriage — the person can be admitted to holy Communion.”
Burke urged the Catholic faithful to write to Pope Francis and Vatican and Irish church officials to make their views known.
Criticizing the “so-called contraceptive mentality,” he warned it was “anti-life” and blamed it for “the devastation that is daily wrought in our world by the multi-million dollar industry of pornography” and the “incredibly aggressive homosexual agenda,” which could only result in “the profound unhappiness and even despair of those affected by it.”
To applause, the cardinal said he refused to use the term traditional marriage for the marriage of a man and a woman: “Is there any other kind of marriage?"
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