Burke is a modernist — don’t let the ornate vestments or his dubia signature fool you!
Cardinal Burke, once again, revealed his modernist character at the Sacred Liturgy Conference which took place in Medford, Oregon this past July. We at Call Me Jorge... became aware of Cardinal Burke’s comments when Cathy Olson posted on the topic on facebook (see below).
Now, thanks to Louie Verrecchio of akaCatholic, one can listen to the actual words as they roll off the lips of the ‘conservative on the outside, modernist on the inside’ Burke. Readers of this blog shouldn’t be surprised by Burke’s comments as in the past this Doctor of Canon Law had to be corrected by the Vatican— that no, a male who has a sex-change into a female cannot become a nun — as well as sits on the board of the Association of Hebrew Catholics and praises their good works— spreading the fables and superstitious magic from the Kabbalah, the Talmud, and the anti-Christian master-race Tanya. Few know that Burke one day “envisages the merg[ing] into one single rite of the Novus Ordo such as approved by Paul VI and the Tridentine Mass, as allowed by Benedict XVI in the Summorum Pontificum.” A big thanks to Cathy Olson and Louie Verrecchio for breaking this story! And now onto Raymond the Rabbi’s words... ‘the sacraments of the SSPX are valid but it’s not good for one to go there — instead go to an Indult.’
MODERATOR: Is it ever licit to attend and receive Communion at a Pius X liturgy? If there are there no other reverent Masses within reasonable distance. Can this fulfill the Sunday obligation?
[Archbishop Sample, who was also on the panel, defers to Cardinal Burke.]
CARDINAL BURKE: The, despite the various arguments surrounding the question, the fact of the matter is that the Priestly Society of St. Pius X is in schism since the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre ordained four bishops without the mandate of the Roman Pontiff.
And so it is not legitimate to attend Mass or to receive the sacraments in a church that’s under the direction of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X.
Having said that, we, part of the kind of general confusion in the Church has also entered into this question because the Holy Father has given the priests of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X faculties to celebrate validly marriages, licitly and validly. But there is no canonical explanation for it, and it is simply an anomaly.
And, also Pope Benedict XVI, before his abdication, he lifted the excommunication of the four bishops who were ordained without the papal mandate, but, he, they hadn’t, the requirement for having an excommunication lifted is that a person has withdrawn from his contumacy and now desires to be fully reconciled with the Church but in fact that hasn’t happened, and so that’s another bit of an anomalous situation
They’re no longer excommunicated, but they’re also not in regular communion with the Catholic Church.
And so the whole thing is very complicated, but I would say to you that, I don’t think it’s a good sign to receive sacraments in the Priestly Society of St. Pius X because that’s not helping them to, first of all, the sacraments are not celebrated licitly. They’re valid, there’s no question about it if the priests are validly ordained, but it’s not a, it’s a countersign to the communion of the Church. Instead we should be encouraging the members of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X to be reconciled with the Church.
In fact, I think that Fr. Saguto could confirm this, I know it was the case both in Lacrosse and in St. Louis where there were apostolates of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest for those desiring the rites of the Church according to the ancient usage, many, many people who had been going to the Priestly Society of St. Pius X were reconciled and returned to the Church.
And I say that if instead we simply go freely to those Masses [of the FSSPX] and so forth that are celebrated, what encouragement does that give to them to be reconciled with the Church?
Then Archbishop Raymond Burke in 2007 participating in Seder Meal. Where is his pectoral cross?
Cardinal Burke is often held up to by conservatives in the Novus Ordo as a friend of tradition in the church and as a bastion of Catholicism. Michael Voris of ChurchMilitant.tvbelieves Burke to be a saint walking among us who could clean up the Novus Ordo if only he were to become the Pope. Previously, on Call Me Jorge..., we covered the scandal of Joel Green — a male transsexual who had surgery in order to appear female, called herself Julie, and then became a sister in the Franciscan Servants of Jesus, all with Burke’s approval. Barf! In this post we’re going to write about another one of Burke’s scandals which is still on-going. Back in 2006 when he was only Bishop Burke, he welcomed the Association of Hebrew Catholics to set up in his then diocese and in 2007 participated with them in a Seder Meal.
Burke’s letter to David Moss allowing the Association of Hebrew Catholics,
which he esteems, to relocate to his diocese.
An article published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which sets up the false and dangerous premise that the Association of Hebrew Catholics are proselytizing Jews when in
fact they are confirming the errors of the Talmudic Jewish religion. The Association of Hebrew Catholics, Cardinal Burke, Francis, Benedict XVI, etc... are trying to conjoin Christianity with Hasidism.
The week before Easter in 2007, Archbishop Raymond Burke, then
the leader of the Catholic Church in St. Louis, attended a Passover
seder with about 25 people in the Central West End.
Passover is a sacred Jewish holiday commemorating God's
liberation of the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt. The
ritual meal is celebrated in the home, and the 2007 seder was no
exception. Guests wore yarmulkes — Burke brought his own zuchetto —
as a symbol of God's presence, and enjoyed traditional seder fare:
matzoh, horseradish, apples and wine.
But this was not a traditional Passover seder.
"It was a seder celebrated in the light of Christ," said David
Moss, the seder's host and president of the St. Louis-based
Association of Hebrew Catholics.
Despite the risk of creating a rift with the St. Louis Jewish
community, the Archdiocese of St. Louis has given the group its
encouragement and support since 2006, when Burke welcomed it into
the archdiocese.
When Moss' organization announced recently it would hold its
first national conference in October at the Renaissance St. Louis
Airport Hotel, the agenda included Burke and archdiocesan
leaders.
That worries local Jewish groups.
After centuries of an often contentious relationship, in the
last 50 years Catholic and Jewish leaders have generally come to an
understanding when it comes to Catholics proselytizing Jews: Don't
do it.
Moss and an archdiocesan official said the group works with
Jewish converts to Catholicism and does not proselytize to Jews.
But the work of some of the conference's speakers suggests
otherwise.
Batya Abramson-Goldstein, executive director of the Jewish
Community Relations Council, said the archdiocese's participation
in the conference was "deeply concerning."
In 1985, a U.S. bishops committee dealing with Catholic-Jewish
relations said "proselytism, which does not respect human freedom,
is carefully to be avoided."
Karen Aroesty, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League,
said "one of the things that the Jewish community knows, or should
know, with confidence is that the Catholic church does not
proselytize, particularly to Jews."
'LOST SHEEP OF ISRAEL'
The Association of Hebrew Catholics heads its newsletters with a
verse from the New Testament book of Romans: "And so all Israel
will be saved." Its goal is to end "the alienation of Catholics of
Jewish origin and background from their historical heritage,"
according to its website.
At least one of the scheduled conference speakers teaches adult
catechism classes for the archdiocese, and the association has a
regular lecture series at the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica.
Another conference speaker is Marty Barrack, an Association of
Hebrew Catholics board member who has written, "We evangelize Jews
because Jesus sent us to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel."
Speaker Roy Schoeman's website "is about, and celebrates, the
relationship between Judaism and the Catholic Church and the
conversion of the Jews."
Jewish converts to Catholicism, who call themselves Jewish
Catholics, differentiate themselves from so-called messianic Jews —
typically converts to evangelical Protestant Christianity who join
groups such as Jews for Jesus.
Moss said that while his group had no plans to openly
proselytize to Jews in the same way as Jews for Jesus, it does
promote a softer kind of evangelization.
"Jews outside the church need to see a Jewish reality inside the
church," Moss said. "We don't evangelize, but if Jews are able to
preserve themselves within the church, it will open the floodgates
for Jews to come into the church."
Jewish leaders in St. Louis disputed the concept of a Jewish
Catholic.
"One cannot be Catholic and be Jewish," said
Abramson-Goldstein.
"Those folks who are Jewish who formally convert to Catholicism
or to another denomination in which they find that Jesus is Christ,
they are not Jewish Catholics or messianic Jews," said Aroesty.
"They are Christians."
BURKE CONNECTION
The seder with Burke was held the year after the Hebrew
Catholics group arrived in St. Louis from Michigan. Other diocesan
leaders, including St. Louis auxiliary Bishop Robert Hermann and
Monsignor Joseph Pins, rector of the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica,
have attended subsequent seders, Moss said.
Both Hermann and Pins will celebrate Mass at the October
conference, and Moss is planning to show an hour-long videotaped
interview with Burke, whose current titles include "archbishop
emeritus of St. Louis."
Burke's approval of the organization is important because of his
influence and standing in the Vatican. In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI
called Burke to Rome to head the Vatican's apostolic signatura, the
highest judicial authority in the church. Since October, Benedict
has named Burke to sit on three of the nine Vatican "congregations"
that guide the Catholic Church. Two of those appointments have come
this month. The pope is likely to elevate Burke to cardinal this
fall.
Burke responded to an interview request in a statement: "With
regard to the Association of Hebrew Catholics, I have no comment to
offer."
Archbishop Robert Carlson was out of the country and unavailable
for comment, though Jewish leaders say Carlson has met with them
during his first year in St. Louis.
Moss, 68, who is retired from IBM, said he hopes to attract more
than 400 people to the October event. He said about 800 people
receive his group's newsletter, but only about 250 members consider
themselves Hebrew Catholics. The nonprofit's latest tax filings,
from 2008, show total assets of $532,000, though nearly all of that
is tied up in the group's building on West Pine Boulevard, where
Moss and his wife also live.
Lawrence Welch, executive director of the archdiocese's office
of ecumenical and interreligious affairs, said "the Gospel is for
everyone, but the Catholic Church doesn't specifically target Jews
with proselytization."
The biblical instruction in the Gospel of Matthew to "make
disciples of all nations" by baptizing them is at the heart of
Christianity, and it can put evangelical-minded Catholics in an
awkward position when they approach Jewish people.
Welch makes a distinction between evangelizing and
proselytizing, which he described as "nonethical ways of seeking
the conversion of others, or arm-twisting."
"My understanding of the group is that they do not target Jews
for conversion," Welch said of the Association of Hebrew Catholics.
"That's what they've told the leadership of the archdiocese.
They're in good standing with the archdicoese. Bishop Hermann
wouldn't be there if they weren't."
Abramson-Goldstein said evangelization is just part of the
problem with the archdiocese's support of the Association of Hebrew
Catholics.
"This is not just about proselytization," she said. "It's about
these groups, apparently with the support of the archdiocese,
redefining how a Jew relates to his or her faith."
Video with Archbishop Burke shown at the Association of Hebrew Catholics’ Conference, “You Shall Be My Witnesses: Hebrew Catholics and the Mission of the Church”, 1-3 October 2010, interview transpired on 5 August 2010.
A transcript of the complete interview can be read in the document You Shall Be My Witnesses... from pages 31 - 41, available at the Association of Hebrew Catholics’ website. (click here)
#1 What is the view of the church of God’s Chosen People whom have been baptised into the Novus Ordo?
OBJECTION : The continuing election of Jewish people who are baptized and enter the Catholic Church? What hogwash! Once one is baptized, you are Catholic — period! This nothing more than racist self worship. Burke here is misdirecting his listeners by equating the people of Israel in the Old Testament with the modern day Talmudic Jews — spiritual heirs of the Traditions of Men which Jesus the Christ condemns in the New Testament. Burke should know well enough that after the Messiah came, the election of Israel was fulfilled. Now, the Holy Catholic Church is Israel through which salvation is obtained and is available to all, including Jews. Talmudic Judaism which negates God’s word in the Old Testament through their books doesn’t bring a rich heritage to Christianity, Cardinal Burke!
#2 Is there any reason a person cannot be a Hebrew Catholic inside the Novus Ordo?
OBJECTION : Burke sees no problem with ‘Hebrew Catholics’ practicing their Talmudic Jewish anti-Christian religion customs in the Catholic Church. Burke believes it’s no different than Irish Catholics practicing Irish-Catholic customs. Where’s the tough ‘Bully Burke’ who lays down Catholic Law? Burke concludes, “When I participated, for instance, in St. Louis in the Seder supper, the Christian Seder supper, I saw this in a wonderful way, how the Hebrew Catholics were bringing through this celebration an ever-deeper appreciation of the meaning of the coming of Christ into the world, of His saving death, and then of the continuation of the fruits of His saving death through the Holy Eucharist.”
#3 What does the Novus Ordo say about Hebrew Catholics observing their Talmudic traditions in the light of Christ?
OBJECTION : How can an anti-Christ Talmudic Jewish tradition such as the Seder Meal be carried out in light of Christ? Why is Burke promoting the Association of Hebrew Catholics who are alchemically attempting to combine Talmudic Judasim with Catholicism?
#4 How can one be a Talmudic Jew practicing Talmudic customs in the Novus Ordo when the Catholic Church condemns such behavior?
OBJECTION : The interviewer, David Moss, and Cardinal Burke take Pope Benedict XIV’s encyclical Ex Quo totally out of context, it reads, “Certain schismatics have tried to calumniate the Latin church by saying that it judaizes by consecrating unleavened bread, observing the Sabbath, and retaining the anointing of kings among the sacred rites.” It doesn’t say that those who practice the customs of the Talmudic Jewish religion, which all originate after the death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus the Christ, can be an observant practicing Catholic. “The inspired leadership of Fr. Friedman” what is Burke smoking? “There should not be anything in Jewish practice which is in itself a denial of the Catholic faith because everything that our Lord revealed to His chosen people was in view of the coming of the Messiah. So all of those rituals and practices understood properly are going to be able to be carried out and practiced by Hebrew Catholics, once again, with a fully Catholic faith. If there was some practice, for instance, let’s say that there was some practice which involved a denial of the victory of Christ over sin and death, that would be a different story. For instance, if someone was having recourse to a shaman for a healing, not believing that it is Christ alone Who heals us and restores us, that could be a difficulty. But not these practices, all of which were preparing for Christ’s coming.” Burke again is playing fast and loose with the fact that Talmudic Judaism in the antithesis of Old Testament Israel. He’s leading his listeners to believe that modern Jewish customs were practiced in the Old Testament. We have a question for Cardinal Burke — Did Jesus the Christ have a bar mitzvah celebration? Of course he didn’t since anything resembling the bar mitzvah begins in the 14th century and the modern day bar mitzvah originates in the 17th century. Burke then alludes to the Seder Meal being a foreshadowing of the pashcal lamb to the Crucifixion of Our Lord and this Seder meal leads one to the truth. The modern day Seder practiced by Hebrew Catholic isn’t “Biblical” in any sense of the word, instead it’s Talmudic.
#5 What counsel would you provide to Hebrew Catholics regarding the preservation of their Talmudic customs within the Novus Ordo?
OBJECTION : Wow, Burke sees Hebrew Catholics as having “the enthusiasm and energy of the first disciples.” Would the disciples promote something that is anti-Christ in its origin? Yet Burke, wants the Hebrew Catholics to spread their message, why it’s part of the new evangelization! “I believe that the Hebrew Catholics have this gift in a most particular way to offer and can help the rest of us to understand better how to carry out the new evangelization and also to be more ardent in carrying out the new evangelization. We cannot understand enough its importance, and we cannot be ever too ardent in carrying it out in our time.”
“Consider the primary aim of the group to be, not the conversion of
the Jews, but the creation of a new Hebrew Catholic community life and
spirit, an alternative society to the old.”
Above is the book by Elias Friedman of whom Burke says in the video interview, “I’m very inspired by Fr. Friedman’s vision, and I believe that he is quite correct.” What is Fr. Friedman’s vision?
“Speaking by and large, the idea of a community for converts arouses
suspicions. We have it in writing that there are some who see the
proposal as an insidious attempt to set up a church within a church.
Whatever its eventual shape and form, the community will have to be
juridically approved by Rome.”
“If the existence of a Hebrew-Catholic
community demonstrates to the Jews that the official Church does not
intend to bring about the destruction of Jewry by assimilation, that
would be a great gain for the Church. If the existence of a Hebrew-
Catholic community should facilitate the admission of Jewry, the gain
should be laid to the account of divine providence.”
“A beginning must be made by changing the régime of assimilation with its cruel effects on the identity of the convert. Every Jewish convert needs to be registered as an Israelite at the moment of baptism and his descendants likewise. During his catechism he should be taught the doctrine of the Church concerning the identity of the Jewish people.[CMJ’s note: the post-Vatican II identity that the Jewish race has a covenant with God and need not Christ for their salvation.] After all, the existence of the “election factor” places an obligation on the Church to act in consequence by encouraging converts to associate in order to build their new identity in continuity with their past. Associations of converts, regional and international, should formulate their collective position towards their people of origin, towards Zionism and the State of Israel, their views on the Jewish-Arab conflict, on the possibilities of collaboration with Jewish bodies. The building of a Hebrew-Christian identity would involve them in a full Hebrew cultural program, with the accent on the Hebrew education of their children. In other words, the community will not be built on converts as they are, but on converts who have been instructed in their unique vocation and its concomitant responsibilities.”
“The charge of racialism hurled against the proposal for a Hebrew community in the Church dishonors those who make it. The objection arises from the fear that an Israelite community in the church would inevitably exclude the Gentiles. But every authentic Israelite community in history has aggregated Gentiles to itself, under certain conditions. An approved Hebrew-Catholic community would enjoy similar authority.”
(Jewish Identity, p. 93)
Wow, this is “the inspired leadership of Fr. Friedman” that so impresses Burke and the vision which he believes is correct! We at Call Me Jorge... can say without a doubt that it isn’t Catholic!
When one compares the AHC Passover Haggadah – Draft 4 (the closest available version to the one used by Burke) with The Passover Haggadah: With Commentary from the Classic Commentators, Midrash, Kabbalah, the Hasidic Masters and the Haggadah of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the parallels between it and Talmudic Judaism jump out at the reader. Burke and the Association of Hebrew Catholics are attempting to frame the Seder Meal as the Passover in which Jesus the Christ participated in and in a manner making one think it’s Biblical. The Seder Meal as observed by the Association of Hebrew Catholics is Talmudic and has little to do with the Bible other than tacking Jesus’ Holy Name and the Blessed Virgin Mary’s onto it. Instead, the Association of Hebrew Catholics are introducing their Talmudic, Kabbalistic, and Zionist garbage into dioceses all over the world often with the approval of bishops such as Burke. Their Seder Meal along with a huge dose of Judaic racial conceit is just one piece of trash they are flogging to gullible and uneducated Catholics.
Magic customs in the Talmudic Seder
source: The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism: Second Edition - Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis, epub edition, entry ‘Passover’ on page 418 & entry ‘Unleavened Bread’ on page 561.
Thanks to the Maurice Pinay Blog for uncovering and exposing what Judaic scholars say among themselves regarding the “Passover Seder” which is not intended for seder-celebrating goys to know.
“Professor of Jewish History and Academic Head of the Scholion-Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel Jacob Yuval writes:”
The
Seder, of course, is a Jewish event — an expression and celebration of
the relationship between God and our people. This is why I find it so
baffling that so many churches conduct “Seders” at this time of year.
And as Christian events, no less!
“The Last Supper” was a Passover Seder, they argue, “so our church Seder is a celebration of an event in the life of Christ.”
“The
Seder celebrates God’s salvation,” they add, “and pursuing salvation
lies at the very heart of Christianity. Our church Seder is therefore
perfectly appropriate.”
Neither argument works. For
starters, the Last Supper couldn’t have been a Passover Seder, because
the Passover Seder didn’t exist until several decades after Jesus’
death. There were Passover celebrations during his day, of course, but
the particular liturgy and ritual of the Seder was a response to the
destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in the year 70, and it wasn’t
finalized until sometime during the third century.
What’s more —
and to be perfectly honest — the Seder developed, in part, as an
anti-Christian polemic — a “slam” on the then-new and growing religion
called Christianity. Such religious critique is all but absent from
contemporary Seders, but the anti-Christian roots of the event are
unmistakable.
A church Seder is thus a Christian event rooted in
anti-Christianity. It makes about as much sense as a GOP rally for
Barack Obama or a symphony boosters fundraiser for punk rock.
Furthermore,
while it is true that the Seder celebrates salvation, it celebrates
salvation as Jews understand it, which is quite different from the
Christian concept.
In Judaism, salvation happens here in this
world, not in heaven; in Judaism, we achieve salvation through the
performance of the sacred acts God commanded of us, not through belief;
in Judaism, salvation is always collective and never individual. And it
is this Jewish notion of salvation that the Seder celebrates — not the
Christian one.
Also pointed out on the Maurice Pinay Blog is that there are Talmudic Benedictions in the Novus Ordo Mass, could this, besides being poorly catechized in the Faith, be one of the reasons Burke and his modernist ilk are so open to Talmudism? Or is there more to it?
Novus Ordo “Preparation of the Gifts”:
Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation. Through your goodness we
have this bread to offer, which earth has given and human hands have
made. It will become for us the bread of life.
Blessed are you,
Lord, God of all creation. Through your goodness we have this wine to
offer, fruit of the vine and work of human hands. It will become our
spiritual drink.
Talmudic Benedictions for Bread and Wine:
“Blessed art thou, O Lord, our God, King of the universe, who bringest forth bread from the earth.” (Babylonian Talmud, tractate Berakoth 38a)
“Blessed art thou, O Lord, our God, King of the universe, who givest us this fruit of the vine.” (Babylonian Talmud, tractate Berakoth 35a)
Neither of those remotely resemble the Offertory Prayers of the Tridentine Latin Mass.
He might dress similar to a Traditional Catholic but underneath Ray like Francis is rabbinical.
Let’s pretend for one moment that the Seder Meal celebrated by Burke and the Association of Hebrew Catholics is the Passover celebrated by Jesus the Christ instead of the 3rd century Talmudic and Kabbalistic ritual which it is in reality. What does the Catholic Church have to say about it?
St. John Chrysostom said,
“Once there was a proper time when they had to follow those observances, but now there is not. That is why what was once according to the Law is now opposed to it.”
“In like manner the ceremonies of
the Old Law betokened Christ as having yet to be born and to suffer:
whereas our sacraments signify Him as already born and having suffered.
Consequently, just as it would be a mortal sin now for anyone, in making
a profession of faith, to say that Christ is yet to be born, which the
fathers of old said devoutly and truthfully; so too it would be a mortal
sin now to observe those ceremonies which the fathers of old fulfilled
with devotion and fidelity.”
As was written in the documents of the Council of Trent,
For, having celebrated the ancient Passover, which the multitude of the children of Israel immolated in memory of their going out of Egypt, He instituted the new Passover, (to wit) Himself to be immolated, under visible signs, by the Church through (the ministry of) priests, in memory of His own passage from this world unto the Father, when by the effusion of His own blood He redeemed us, and delivered us from the power of darkness, and translated us into his kingdom. And this is indeed that clean oblation, which cannot be defiled by any unworthiness, or malice of those that offer (it); which the Lord foretold by Malachias was to be offered in every place, clean to his name, which was to be great amongst the Gentiles; and which the apostle Paul, writing to the Corinthians, has not obscurely indicated, when he says, that they who are defiled by the participation of the table of devils, cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord; by the table, meaning in both places the altar. This, in fine, is that oblation which was prefigured by various types of sacrifices, during the period of nature, and of the law; in as much as it comprises all the good things signified by those sacrifices, as being the consummation and perfection of them all.
Pope Innocent IV understood that Jews through their Talmud twisted the Word of God until it became the Law of the Rabbis or the spiritual legacy of the Traditions of Men condemned by Jesus the Christ in the New Testament. Clearly, the Association of Hebrew Catholics and Burke understand this but condemn it and the teachings of the Catholic Church. Like the rabbis, they believe that they know better than God.
[The Jews] omitting or scorning the Mosaic law and the prophets,
follow certain traditions of their seniors concerning which the Lord
rebukes them in the Gospel, saying: “Why do you transgress the mandate
of God and irritate Him by your traditions, teaching human doctrines and
mandates?” [Matthew 15, 9]
Upon this sort of traditions, which in
Hebrew are called the Talmud--and there is a great book among them
exceeding the text of the Bible in length, in which are manifest
blasphemies against God and Christ and the blessed Virgin, intricate
fables, erroneous abuses, and unheard-of stupidities--they nourish and
teach their sons and render them utterly alien from the doctrine of the
law and the prophets, fearing lest, if they knew the truth, which is in
the law and the prophets, and which testifies openly that the only
begotten son of God will come in the flesh, they would be converted to
the faith and humbly return to their Redeemer. And not content with
these things, they make Christian women nurses of their sons in
contumely of the Christian faith, with whom they commit many shameful
things. On which account the faithful should be afraid lest they incur
divine wrath while they unworthily allow them to perpetrate acts which
bring confusion upon our faith.
So why does the Association of Hebrew Catholics practice racial self-worship and Cardinal Burke go along with their program?
A rabbi tying a phylactery on to Aharon Yosef.
Another piece of bilge the Association of Hebrew Catholics promotes are the writings of people such as Aharon Yosef (a.k.a. Aron Ben Gilad, Athol Bloomer, Br. Gilbert, Br. Gilbert of the Divine Presence, Br. Gilbert Joseph, Gilbert Bloomer) in their official magazine, The Hebrew Catholic, and on their website. Aharon Yosef interestingly shares names with the Kabbalist, Aharon Yosef Luria, who is the great-grandfather of the infamous Isaac Luria (responsible for the Lurianic Kabbalah). Aharon Yosef believes one can draw Catholic doctrine from the Talmud and the Kabbalah which is false.
The insane double-mind of Athol Bloomer is front and center in THC #85 where he is interviewed. Bloomer shows himself to be a teacher of false doctrines. His multi-part article Eucharist & Jewish Mystical Tradition in The Hebrew Catholic issues #77, #78, and #80 attempts to pawn off fables and superstitious magic from the Kabbalah and the Talmud as Catholic. Elsewhere on the internet Bloomer writes while sitting in the “Hebrew Catholic Center in St. Louis” of the glories of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rebbe Menachem Schneersohn, and the mystical book called “Tanya”. The “Tanya” of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi is full of racial supremacy:
“... the explanation of the matter, [is to be found] in light of what Rabbi Chayim Vital wrote in Shaar HaKedushah (and in Etz Chayim, Portal 5, ch. 2) — that every Jew, whether righteous or wicked, possesses two souls, as it is written, “And neshamot (souls) which I have made. (Tanya, Chapter 1)
...The second, uniquely Jewish, soul is truly “a part of G-d above, The souls of the nations of the world [the Gentiles], however, emanate from the other, unclean kelipot which contain no good whatever, as is written in Etz Chayim, Portal 40, ch. 3, that all the good that the nations [Gentiles] do, is done out of selfish motives. (Tanya, chapter 2)
...So the Gemara comments on the verse, “The kindness of the nations
[gentiles] is sin” — that all the charity and kindness done by the
nations of the world is only for their self-glorification...Concerning
the nations [Gentiles] of the world, however, this is not so. Their
motivation is not the welfare of their fellow; rather, it stems from a
self-serving motive — the desire for self-glorification, a feeling of
gratification, and the like. (Tanya, Chapter 1)
...The lower category consists of three completely unclean and evil kelipot, containing no good whatever... From them flow and are derived the souls of all the nations of the world [Gentiles], and the sustaining force of their bodies. Also derived from these kelipot are the souls of all living creatures that are unclean and forbidden to be eaten, and the sustaining force of their bodies.” (Tanya, Chapter 6)
One can also read gems of false doctrine on the Association of Hebrew Catholics’ online forum such as this:
“I study Tanya (the main writing of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Lubavitcher Rebbe) everyday. The more I read it, I have seen the message of Yeshua HaMoshiach. He was so close to the truth and yet was blind to take it one step forward to the revelation of Yeshua HaMoshiach....It was actually through the Tanya (and of course the Tanakh) that I began my journey to the Church. Mind you, I still have a picture of the [Lubavitcher] Rebbe on my wall, right next to my Crucifix.”
The Association of Hebrew Catholics have a guide for celebrating Sukkot which while appearing on the surface to be Biblical is in reality a perversion of the Bible turned into Talmudic superstition. They also sell a calendar which includes all the Novus Ordo holy days as well as all the holy days of Talmudic Judaism. The Association of Hebrew Catholicssupports the illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine. One could safely state that they are spreading the Judaizing heresy among gulliable Catholics. The website quotes Chabad-Lubavitchers and the Talmud with regularity in a positive light.
The Captive Daughter of Zion holy card sold by the AHC bookstore.
Notice that Mary has a German concentration camp yellow star
identifying her as a Jude and that Jesus is dressed as an orthodox
Talmudic Jew holding the ‘Torah’ as if celebrating his bar mitzvah.
The Association of Hebrew Catholics has an online bookstore. Here is a small sampling of some of the books and talks available for purchase: Jewish Identity, Judaism, The Promise - Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, Jacques Maritain and the Jews, Jewish Roots to the Catholic Mass, Salvation is From the Jews, Jewish Roots of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, Jesus and Jewish Roots of the Papacy, The Holocaust: Never to be Forgotten, Holocaust Survivor Cookbook Vol. 1, Revelation of the Son of Man, The Jewish Roots of Catholicism, Catholics Remember the Holocaust, The Crucified Rabbi: Judaism and the Origins of Catholic Christianity, Completed Jew, etc...
Recognize a theme there?
A book sold by the Association of Hebrew Catholics. Notice that Jesus the Christ is dressed in the manner of an orthodox Jew with a Seal of Solomon headband.
Why do we bring all this up?
According to the National Catholic Register (1 February 2016), “Cardinal Raymond Burke sits on the board of advisers for the Association of Hebrew Catholics and has praised its work in the Catholic Church since he was archbishop of St. Louis.” This is confirmed by checking the Association of Hebrew Catholics’ website where Burke is listed as serving on the AHC Board of Advisors. There you have it, not only has Burke approved of the Association of Hebrews Catholics by bringing them into his then diocese, participated in their Talmudic/Kabbalistic religious rituals, spoken at their conference, and advised them — Burke has fooled the bulk of people into believing him an upholder of Catholic tradition by dressing in traditional vestments and writing 5 dubia to Francis concerning Amoris Laetitia — when he is cut from the same modernist cloth that Francis is.
We at Call Me Jorge... fear that Burke’s idea for saving Catholicism will be by helping herd Catholics into a Noahide ghetto. Burke like Francis understands that Christ is offensive to Talmudists and plays along with them, sadly leaving them wallowing in their spiritual darkness, and as shown above attempts to inculcate the Talmudic mental derangement into his flock. May God help all those who think this man is conservative, much less Catholic.
Cardinal Burke’s selling of Talmudic, Kabbalistic, and Zionist traditions in the Seder Meal as Catholic isn’t very much different than the time he tried to foist a man, Joel Green, upon his flock telling them he was a ‘women’ and a ‘sister’ no less.
Bruce Jenner a man with mental illness who wants to be a woman.
What!? We can hear the Cardinal's defenders say, "Burke would never do such a thing!"
These same defenders were extolling the virtues of Burke and thanking God that the conservatives had a champion like him earlier this year in January when Francis had Neria, a woman who styles herself a man named Diego, and her fiance over to Casa Santa Marta as his private guests. Recall what Francis told Neria (who God created as a female),
Conservatives were outraged! "Why, if only someone else
was in Rome, someone like Cardinal Burke!"
One quick question, has anyone heard Burke speak out about Francis
meeting with Neria and uttering his words of false 'mercy' to her? We didn't think so.
Which brings us to Bruce Jenner and Raymond Leo Burke. Would Burke accept Bruce Jenner as a nun if he were Catholic?
Absolutely!
Does anyone remember the Franciscan Servants of Jesus? The Franciscan religious congregation for women was founded in 1993 (under
Bishop Weakland), elevated in 1997 and approved of by the then Bishop Burke before being suppressed by him in late 2003. Turns out one of the two sisters who co-founded the order was in reality created by God as a man!
"Julie Green is living a lie!" writes Mary Therese Helmueller in an
October 25, 2002, letter to Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, Papal Nuncio to
the United States. "[She] is a transsexual, a biological male. He is
really Joel Green, who had a sex operation to make him physically appear
as a woman.... I fear that The Church in America will suffer another 'sex scandal' if Julie Green continues to be recognized as a Catholic Religious Sister, and if Bishop Raymond L. Burke receives his final vows, as a religious sister, on November 23rd, 2002."
Montalvo forwarded the letter to Burke, who on November 20, 2002,
replied to Helmueller. "With regard to Sister Julie Green, F.S.J., the
recognition of the association of the faithful which she and Sister Anne
LeBlanc founded was granted only after consultation with the Holy See,"
he writes. "These are matters which are confidential and do not admit
of any further comment.... I can assure you that Sister Julie Green in
no way espouses a sex change operation as right or good. In fact, she
holds it to be seriously disordered. Therefore, I caution you very much
about the rash judgments which you made in your letter to the Apostolic
Nuncio."
Adds Burke: "I express my surprise that, when you had questions about
Sister Julie Green, you did not, in accord with the teaching of our
Lord, address the matter to me directly."
Green and the Franciscan Servants weren't the only controversial
religious order with which Burke allied himself. In the late 1990s, the
bishop combined the parishes of St. Mary and St. James in Wausau,
Wisconsin. The two parishes formed the Resurrection Parish at what was
formerly St. James' Parish.
St. Mary's was sold. Burke then asked the conservative Latin-rite
religious order, Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, to
perform the Tridentine Mass at what was formerly St. Mary's. In February
2002, the order's superior, Monsignor Timothy Svea, pleaded guilty to
exposing himself to and molesting teenage boys.
What makes this tragic is Burke needed clarification from the Vatican on the matter! This from a 'traditionalist' who at the time had or was a:
Licentiate in Canon Law (JCL), Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy, 1982
Doctorate in Canon Law (JCL), Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy, 1984.
Member of the Canonical Affairs Committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1997-1999.
Visiting Professor of Canonical Jurisprudence, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy, 1985-1994.
Member of the Canon Law Society of; America, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland, and Australia and New Zealand, 1984-present.
Honored with the Role of Law Award of the Canon Law Society of America, October 4, 2000.
One
would think with just the basic education a child receives from learning a Catholic
catechism, one would know that a man cannot be allowed to be a nun much
less found a new religious order and become its mother superior. Thank goodness, Mary Therese Helmueller knew what a sin against God is and took action!
In
January, 2003, a concerned parishioner from St. Paul, Minnesota
notified us that a transsexual (man to woman) had been a religious
Catholic sister for 18 years, ten years in the Milwaukee Diocese under
Bishop Weakland in a women’s Franciscan order. Then in 1993 this
transsexual nun went to the LaCrosse Diocese under the Bishop and
received permission to found his/her own religious Catholic Women’s
Order called “Franciscan Servants of Jesus”. On October 4, 1997 Bishop
Raymond L. Burke elevated the order and was going to hear the final vows
of Sr. Julie Green (Joel Green) on November 23, 2003.
The
concerned parishioner sent copies of all papers that had been collected
on Sister Julie to various authorities in Rome, but received no reply.
Finally, the parishioner went to Rome and only when publicity was given
to the case, was any action taken by the Church. Bishop Burke commented
in a letter dated January 27, 2003 that unfortunately the situation had
been publicized, denied that Sister Julie became a nun or was the mother
superior of the religious order, and that “...such a person has been
unable to emit valid vows except to the sex of his or her birth”.
At the time when all this went down, what was the Vatican's position on persons who had had their 'sex changed'? In the article below from Catholic World News, we have sex change operations ruled invalid by the Vatican in 2000. So pre-October 1997 when then Bishop Burke consulted with the Vatican about founding the Franciscan Servants of Jesus did it slip his mind to ask whether or not to find out if it was OK for a man posing as a woman to be one of the founders of the Order? Did he think it perfectly alright? Or was he in the dark about 'Sister Julie' Green?
If the then Bishop Burke was in the dark about Joel Green posing as a female nun in his diocese, the best case scenario is that Burke is an inept leader. If he wasn't then...
We predict there will
be no schism in the Novus Ordo caused by Cardinal Burke as he will go along with
everything Francis does even if he might grumble about it. Recall what Burke wrote in February 2014 in L’Osservatore Romano, his position is still the same today. In fact we believe he will help Francis merge the Latin Mass & the Novus Ordo.
In this interview, Card. Burke
also envisages the merge into one single rite of the Novus Ordo such as
approved by Paul VI and the Tridentine Mass, as allowed by Benedict XVI
in the Summorum Pontificum. He said: “It seems to me that what he [the
Pope] has in mind is that this mutual enrichment would seen to naturally
produce a new form of the Roman rite - the reform of the reform, if we
may - all of which I would welcome and look forward to its advent.” (2)
Here we have another confirmation by a Vatican official that we are
heading to a hybrid Mass. Indeed, we heard
Card. Kurt Koch saying something similar last year.
Francis and Burke, two modernist peas in a pod.
And if Bruce Jenner were to become a Catholic with the desire to become a nun, well based on past history Cardinal Burke would have no problem helping him to achieve this dream.
