Archbishop Burke weighs in on ND-Obama situation

From Fox News:

One of the Vatican's highest ranked clerics and a frequent critic of President Obama said Friday that Notre Dame is causing a "scandal" by giving the president an honorary degree and a platform to address graduates at its commencement next weekend. 

'The proposed granting of an honorary doctorate at Notre Dame University to our president, who is so aggressively advancing an anti-life and anti-family agenda, is rightly the source of the greatest scandal," said Archbishop Raymond Burke, who is the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican's highest court.

Burke, the former archbishop of St. Louis and vocal opponent of giving communion to politicians who support abortion rights, told Catholics at a national prayer breakfast in Washington, D.C., that "with unparalleled arrogance, our nation is choosing to renounce its foundation on the faithful."

And:

"The appointment of a Catholic as secretary of health and human services who has openly and consistently cooperated with the industry of procurative abortion in our nation is necessarily the source of the deepest embarrassment to Catholics and a painful reminder of the most serious responsibility of Catholics to uphold the moral law, which is the irreplaceable foundation of just relationships among the citizens of our nation," Burke said. 

He added that it "grieves me to say that the support of anti-life legislation by Catholics in public office is so common that those who are not Catholics have justifiably questioned whether the church's teachings regarding the inviolable dignity of innocent human life is firm and unchanging. It gives the impression that the church herself can change the law that God has written on every human heart since the beginning of time."

Read the entire piece. And then be prepared to hear from The Usual Suspects that Burke is one or all of the following:

• A Republican hack, hit-man, enforcer, drone, errand boy.
• An arrogant, out-of-touch, power-hungry, anti-choice Church leader fearful of losing power.
• An ultra-right-wing, hyper-traditionalist Catholic stuck in the 1950s.
• An enemy of moderation, dialogue, and respectful conversation about issues that divide Catholics.

Comments

[Bernie]

God Bless this Bishop - Will it do any good. On fox and msnbc they state that 68% of catholics voted for this president.