Vaccine-skeptic US cardinal off ventilator after contracting Covid-19

[Donkees]

Sat 21 Aug 2021 14.22 EDT

Excerpt:

A high-ranking Roman Catholic cardinal and vaccine skeptic hospitalised after contracting Covid-19 was off a ventilator and being moved out of intensive care on Saturday, according to officials at a Wisconsin shrine he founded. Raymond Burke was to return to a regular hospital room at an undisclosed location, the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse said.

“His sister spoke with him on the phone this morning, and His Eminence expressed his deep gratitude for the many prayers offered on his behalf,” said the Rev Paul N Check, executive director of the shrine, on Saturday.

“His family asks that we continue those prayers for his full and speedy recovery, and they are grateful to God for the exceptional medical care the Cardinal has received from the dedicated doctors and nurses who continue to assist him.”

An earlier statement from the shrine said Burke had received sacraments from priests and several relics had been placed in his room.

He spoke out against mandatory vaccinations in May 2020, and said some in society want to implant microchips in people. The best weapon for fighting the virus, he said, was Jesus Christ.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/21/cardinal-raymond-burke-vaccine-skeptic-ventilator-covid-19

[roamer65]

1. Bummer.

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. Damn

The old fart will not have learned a thing. Bank on it. He's religion's Steve Scalise.

[Lefta Dissenter]

3. Is Karma out on vacation? (N/t)

[dalton99a]

4. Now he can go out and preach against the vaccine

Fuck.

[FreepFryer]

5. Not a mention of any change of heart nor compassion for others. Fuck that asshole. (Nt)

[bottomofthehill]

6. Science saved him, the Prayers are window dressing.

They don’t hurt, but really now.

[GPV]

7. He's not out of the woods yet. Covid may stick with him awhile.

[niyad]

8. A friend contracted covid last Aug. Was in icu, high flow oxygen, etc.

Recovered well enough after a week to be in a regular room. All sunshine and optimism every day when we spoke. After 5 days, back in icu, vent. Taken off life support after two days, died almost immediately.

[Hugin]

10. This dude is gunning for canonization.

To do that, he needs a miracle. Like showing those damned vaccination scientists they're all wet.

Something seems off here or he wasn't ever on a vent.

[niyad]

13. Had not thought of the miracle/canonization angle! Must be slipping!

[Hugin]

15. Outside of certain groups...

It doesn't hold the panache it once did. So, it's not an obvious thing to the modern mind.

However, after I read he'd been given the sacraments and relics were placed around him, I knew what was going down.

It's the equivalent of a comic-con by the true believers.

Don't worry that you're slipping. I'm only aware of it due to my immersion in the faith for the majority of my life.

[niyad]

16. I grew up in that world until I got ex-commed. But that was a looooooong time ago.

The canonization of junipero sera made me ill.

[Hugin]

17. That is not to say, I haven't seen a fair share of miracles in my lifetime...

most of them lately, courtesy of science.

[niyad]

23. Absolutely agree!

[niyad]

9. If the best medicine for fighting the virus was jesus, why was this jerk in the hospital

surrounded by. . .you know. . Medicine and medical people???

[bluestarone]

12. EXACTLY!!!!

[smirkymonkey]

11. Great. Now we get to hear all about how Jesus saved him because everyone prayed hard enough.

[niyad]

14. That is FUNNY!!!!

[Midnight Writer]

18. I'm surprised he is thankful for my prayers.

God must not have given him the details.

I wonder what the relics were?

[Donkees]

19. It seems that the shrine he founded in Wisconsin has a collection of relics ...

1st Class relics
Miguel Pro - in the altar of the church and in the side-aisle shrine
Kateri Tekakwitha - in the altar of the church
Therese of Lisieux- in the side-aisle shrine under the painting by Neilson Carlin
Peregrine Laziosi - in the side-aisle shrine under the painting by Neilson Carlin
Maria Goretti - in the side-aisle shrine[9]
Faustina Kowalska - in the side-aisle shrine
Gianna Beretta Molla - in the side-aisle shrine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_of_Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe

[Midnight Writer]

22. Thank you. That is bizarre. I had no idea it existed.

70 acres.

It's like a Disneyland of relics.

[Maru Kitteh]

20. That's too bad. nt

[SkylineChili]

21. yep. Sainthood

Sainthood and vindication for all of his beliefs, attitudes, and pronouncements. And a big middle finger to Francis.