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?
source: akaCatholic, BREAKING: Cardinal Burke slams FSSPX
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