Cardinal Burke, vax skeptic, has covid, is on ventilator

[Tanuki]

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cardinal-burke-has-covid-is-on-ventilator/article_28639900-9c76-5481-b7ad-62266e605d0b.html

"Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, archbishop emeritus of St. Louis, is ill with COVID-19 and has been placed on a ventilator, according to a Saturday night tweet from his Twitter account.

“Doctors are encouraged by his progress. (His Eminence) faithfully prayed the Rosary for those suffering from the virus. On this Vigil of the Assumption, let us now pray the Rosary for him,” the tweet said.
...

Burke, 73, was Archbishop of St. Louis from 2003 to 2008. He went to the Vatican to become a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial authority in the Catholic Church, aside from the Pope. He is currently Cardinal Priest of Sant’Agata de’ Goti in Rome.
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According to the National Catholic Reporter, Burke “has expressed skepticism about the need for distancing measures to contain the coronavirus and has opposed mandatory vaccination schemes.”
In a homily given last December, Burke called COVID the “Wuhan virus,” and said, “It has been used by certain forces inimical to families and to the freedom of nations, to advance their evil agenda.”

According to LifeSiteNews.Com, Burke in a May 2020 address to the Rome Life Forum said vaccinations should not be forced "in a totalitarian manner" on people.
Burke, the website said, also said "there is a certain movement to insist that now everyone must be vaccinated against the coronavirus COVID-19 and even that a kind of microchip needs to be placed under the skin of every person, so that any moment he or she can be controlled by the State regarding health and about other matters which we can only imagine."...(more)

[Demovictory9]

1. he spread all that unhelpful nonsense. hard time finding sympathy

[multigraincracker]

2. I sure hope the Cardinal

didn't get to spread his "evil agenda". Any religion that can not adapt to its current environment is doomed to fail.

[jimfields33]

12. The pope said no exemptions for Catholics on vaccines

He clearly won’t even listen to the pope.

[certainot]

15. so they define/change/control/limit environment so uncertainties can be turned into certainties

it's that nasty Certainty Deficit Disorder

[Skittles]

11. no doubt he spread the virus plenty too

fucking moron

[Demovictory9]

57. exactly

[AZ8theist]

20. Thoughts and prayers....JERK OFF

Thoughts and prayers...

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. Karma 1. Covid denying religious nutjob 0.

Religion is faith, to each their own. Science is fact. KellyAnne, notwithstanding, science does not exist as alternative fact.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. It's amazing to me how many people have been apparently moonlighting as

epidemiologists, virologists and infectious disease physician specialists for the last year and a half.

It's not like the priesthood doesn't pay above minimum wage. Did he really need that second job?

We're finding out what crappy leaders we have in our society, that's for sure.

[Eugene]

5. No indication the Cardinal has budged from his COVID skeptic stance.

Freedom on Earth to be rewarded in Heaven?

[smirkymonkey]

6. I don't really care.

Sorry.

[UpInArms]

7. He should have just prayed it away.

Why did he need to go to the hospital?

[HUAJIAO]

26. And take a place needed by someone else??

[NurseJackie]

8. Pity.

[Scrivener7]

9. Huh. Imagine that.

[twodogsbarking]

10. Religion

[themaguffin]

25. No, it's not religion. He's just an asshole.

[Sibelius Fan]

39. No, it's religion.

[themaguffin]

41. Nope, it's like saying that trumpers are Christian. They are not. At. All.

[twodogsbarking]

44. I don't recall that being said.

[themaguffin]

58. They say it. All the time

[twodogsbarking]

60. Now I understand.

I got my "theys" mixed up.

[Sibelius Fan]

47. They act a lot like Christians to me.

Belief in make believe, elitism, self-importance and -aggrandizement. Traits seen in 98% of Christians.

[Elessar Zappa]

52. Most black civil rights activists were evangelical Christians.

Religion isn’t all bad.

[Sibelius Fan]

61. A lot were communists. So what?

What good are you as a human being if you need fear of the make believe to make you do the thing won by our hard-fought evolutionary battles?

[themaguffin]

59. The GOP platform is counter to the Gospel

[Sibelius Fan]

62. Which gospel? The one where Jesus says he brings a sword, not peace? The one

where he says if you can’t hate your immediate family you can’t love him? That gospel?

[themaguffin]

69. Oh, you read it literally. Noted.

[Sibelius Fan]

70. Right. Read the Buybull literally when it helps (like Jesus actually existing - no proof he did)

but treat it as a metaphor when that works better than literalism.

Got it!

[Mariana]

72. How do you interpret those words?

What do you think Jesus was trying to say?

[themaguffin]

74. I'm done with discussing this with people being deliberately obtuse

[Sibelius Fan]

76. Isn't religion the definition of obtuse?

[themaguffin]

79. As I stated, I'm done with discussing this with people are obtuse.

[tonedevil]

67. They are all shit heads/ nt

[Hortensis]

75. Partisan beliefs can be religious level and

Even kick aside religious training. As we see.

This guy couldn’t have become a cardinal if he was technically stupid, but his personality makes him very stupid, submerging his intellect and morality and denyimg truth whenever they interfere with what he wants to believe.

We see it all the time as people of real intellectual attainments in other fields seemingly become dumb as a bag of rocks and indifferent to facts when indulging their worst on public issues, spouting the same hostility-driven factionalism as a bunch of low achievement buffoons over their third beers.

[Celerity]

31. +1

[AngryOldDem]

13. Thoughts and prayers.

Archconservative, so not at all surprised he’s anti-vax.

[2naSalit]

14. Gee, that's too bad.

[arlyellowdog]

16. Pope Francis tried to get rid of him

I will not comment further for fear of Divine Retribution

[pwb]

17. Well you were wrong Cardinal

about everything. Time to hang up the robes and retire and maybe buy a few guns to play with instead of you know what.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Yet his "boss" and the Vatican leadership

is trying to get rid of the fake crap coming out of their loon wing - https://apnews.com/article/science-coronavirus-pandemic-religion-health-2c0e95a2171b7ff9ed63171e8edd3db5

and both Francis and his predecessor got their first doses back in January - https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/europe/pope-francis-covid-19-vaccine-intl/index.html

The irony of this one using the phrase "in a totalitarian manner" just goes to show how disconnected people like him are about what is essentially their own "doctrine" foisted on others "in a totalitarian manner".

[Demnation]

19. May he be remembered as a martyr to herd immunity (insert genuflection).

[NCjack]

21. Covid-19 don't care that you are a Cardinal.

[mgardener]

22. Because it is Sunday...

Proverbs 1:22
“Fools, how long will you love being ignorant? How long will you make fun of wisdom? How long will you hate knowledge?”

[NJCher]

66. It's amazing that had to be said then

And it’s amazing it has to be said now.

[lagomorph777]

73. But Genesis says that knowledge is evil.

That whole snake/apple story has been used to control people for thousands of years.

[struggle4progress]

77. No -- in Genesis, the Tree of Life is in the middle of the Garden, and

the people are warned not to eat the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (lest they die) -- but they get confused, and say they have been told not to eat from the tree in the middle of the Garden. In their confusion, then, they eat the forbidden fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, hoping to obtain Life, and they are driven away from the Garden: one rabbinical commentary asserts that they were driven away to prevent them from destroying the Tree of Life

There are many varieties of "knowledge." Not all varieties help us live well.

[Ziggysmom]

23. This is the ass who blamed the church's problems on feminism and promoted catholics

voting for tfg

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/13/former-highest-ranking-u-s-cardinal-blames-feminized-church-for-the-catholic-churchs-problems/

[Vinca]

24. Quick - insert chips in him while he's incapacitated!

First up: the Bill Gates Special Sanity Chip.

[paleotn]

27. I really don't care. Do you?

About the condition of his "eminence" that is. The more religo-wankers karma variant takes out, the better. Hate to be that way, but they asked for it and deserve it.

[ProfessorGAC]

48. Hate To Be That Way?

I'll raise your "I don't care" to "I hope he dies from COVID!". There, I said it!

[paleotn]

51. Oooo! You went there.

[Donkees]

28. Nearer, My God, to Thee

"Sometime around 2.10 a.m. as the Titanic began settling more quickly into the icy North Altantic, the sounds of ragtime, familiar dance tunes and popular waltzes that had floated reassuringly across her decks suddenly stopped as Bandmaster Wallace Hartley tapped his bow against his violin. Hartley and his musicians, all wearing their lifebelts now, were standing back at the base of the second funnel, on the roof of the First Class Lounge, where they had been playing for the better part of an hour. There were a few moments of silence, then the solemn strains of the hymn "Nearer My God to Thee" began drifting across the water. It was with a perhaps unintended irony that Hartley chose a hymn that pleaded for the mercy of the Almighty, as the ultimate material conceit of the Edwardian Age, the ship that "God Himself couldn't sink," foundered beneath his feet. As the band played, the slant of the deck grew steeper, while from within the hull came a rapidly increasing number of thuds, bangs and crashes as interior furnishings broke loose, walls and partitions collapsed--the Titanic was only moments from breaking apart."

Adapted from www.rmstitanicremembered.com

[Tanuki]

32. Ledbelly's "Fare thee, Titanic, fare thee well"

https://m.

Lyrics:
It was midnight on the sea,
Band playin' "Nearer My God to Thee"
Cryin', "Fare thee, Titanic, fare the well, "

Titanic when it got its load,
Captail hollered, "All aboard, "
Cryin', "Fare thee, Titanic, fare the well, "

Jack Johnson want to get on board,
Captain said, "I ain't hauling no coal, "
Cryin', "Fare thee, Titanic, fare the well, "

Titanic was comin 'round the curve,
When she ran in to a big iceberg,
Cryin', "Fare thee, Titanic, fare the well, "

Titanic was sinkin' down,
Had lifeboats all around
Cryin', "Fare thee, Titanic, fare the well, "

Had them lifeboats all around,
Savin the women and children, lettin' men go down,
Cryin', "Fare thee, Titanic, fare the well, "

Jack Johnson heard the mighty shock
Mighta seen him doin' the Eagle Rock
Cryin', "Fare thee, Titanic, fare the well, "

When the women and children got to land,
Crying "Lord have mercy on my man, "
Cryin', "Fare thee, Titanic, fare the well, "

[gordianot]

29. May he find justice at the Gate, no Sainthood on Earth for you buckoo.

[milestogo]

33. Maybe he can become the Patron Saint of Stupid People,

I don't think that spot is taken.

[lindysalsagal]

36. He'll hafta fight the pillow guy for that one....

[hatrack]

34. Gosh, how . . . . tragi-, uh, utterly predictable

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

35. Burke apparently hates President Biden, and all Democrats, and

apparently loves Trump.

The U.S. Cardinal Crusading Against the Catholic President-Elect

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cardinal-raymond-burke-hates-joe-biden-americas-second-catholic-president

[GopherGal]

63. I looked up his wikipedia page...

to determine if he was the Archbishop who wanted the boycott of girl scout cookies because of their support of organizations that promote access to birth control and abortion. Turns out that wasn't him (it was his successor), but I read enough to be reminded why I fell away from the church.

[LeftInTX]

65. I wanna know why a US Cardinal is working at a shrine in LaCrosse, Wisconsin???

This is where he's assigned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27Agata_de%27_Goti,_Rome

[lindysalsagal]

37. How any religion survives this pandemic, I'll never understand.

[LeftInTX]

64. Most Catholics are not like him!

[Wounded Bear]

38. The Lord helps those who help themselves...

but I guess God was busy that day.

[Sibelius Fan]

40. While we're "praying the rosary" in hopes of the Cardinal beating Covid,

let us not forget this inspirational verse from Ezekiel:

“She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse.”

[mcar]

42. Reap. Sow.

[BeckyDem]

43. How many people has he given the virus to?

What a guy.

[twin_ghost]

45. Actually Burke Was Against COVID vaccine because of human cells from an abortion developed it.

Superstitious beliefs.

[dalton99a]

46. Time to go, motherfucker

[Cadfael]

49. I am definitely spending extra time in purgatory

At the very least, because of the thoughts I’m having about His Eminence….

If any of that nonsense even exists.

[twodogsbarking]

50. I think they have internet now.

[Cadfael]

54. Dial up presumably

After all it is purgatory

[634-5789]

55. Our Bishop is a big time TeapubliKKKan. I lost all respect for him and his ilk.

[SkylineChili]

56. yes.

He is an insane Teapublican who loves Trump and who believes Pope Francis is a heretic. He is a source of disinformation, discrimination, and dissent. He is responsible for much evil in the Church and the world. May he receive mercy as he deserves.

[Hekate]

53. How very sad that someone who's been fed Qonspiracies now has the Hoax Disease. nt

[tonedevil]

68. If all religions could be eradicated...

humanity would be much better off.

[lagomorph777]

71. Sounds like the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura...

...may have imposed their verdict on this nutcase.