If he is this outspoke right now, while he still is in charge of the A.S. , what will he do/say when he is carted off to the Knights of Malta headquarters?
I personally don't really care, as I am a sedevacantist, but what if Cardinal Burke becomes involved with the SSPX or defies Rome more?
Then we're really in trouble.
I've been blessed to meet priests
who appear to be in the Wormwood church who slip around as "retired" and have never said the mess of montini, and really do a good work, risking much by remaining "really close to the fire" in order to try to save any poor souls left who may be able to
hear the Truth (which has nothing to do with post-Pius XII Rome and "the 2nd Vatican Council").
I actually have spoken only to one such priest (and I saw one with him); but he mentioned others. They are "retired", or otherwise playing their cards close to their chests, but apparently work tirelessly to bring the Eucharist to the Faithful, and to counsel lost sheep OUT OF the conciliar church, and
never work to move up in the hierarchy. It would seem that Burke is not amongst those numbers (by def: he's a "prelate").
Now as for if it's possible someone can be wrongly taught and take invalid 'holy orders' and move up through the ranks
and then be converted to the Faith? I don't know. I'm not sure we should even ASK God to overlook broken Holy Orders and re-re-re-convert someone, to be honest. That time has come and gone, because where was Burke when Abp. Lefebvre and the Bishops were, as if it were possible, "excommunicated" from the Church? Were Burke's ears just stuffed with cotton, or his eyes blinded, as Wojtyla and Ratzinger did their convoluted deeds? Can a man who has claimed to be an apostle of God be re-re-re-RE-converted?
In such an unprecedented time, having prayed on
how to pray for such people, I believe that if Burke (or one like him) walked into a parish as a FIRST-TIMER "never heard of this Catholicism thing, I was a Jєω, will you teach me?", that would be something the Church could stand behind. Unfortunately, otherwise I fear it's dangerous to even pray "all be forgiven because Burke was brain-dead" (when he was not, in fact, in any accident of which I'm aware). Burke placed his bet and he's on the other side of the chasm. We watch Rome now as we might a soap opera, since the mystery of iniquity is like watching a train wreck in slow motion, but we have to remember that we aren't OF this world, and Burke is very "rich" (in power and state) and
this may be more of what Our Lord meant when he said it's "
easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
Of course I may be wrong, and probably am in many particulars, but I would be happy if Burke were to convert to Catholicism
as a layperson hoping to join the Church. He might bring many with him.
IDK; it's a pipedream, but I gues, PRAY!
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