{"id":26319,"date":"2011-03-18T07:10:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T11:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/cardinal-burke-on-the-truth-of\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T07:10:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T11:10:24","slug":"cardinal-burke-on-the-truth-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/cardinal-burke-on-the-truth-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Burke on the truth of human sexuality &#038; fall of Christian culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">Raymond Cardinal<br \/>\nBurke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature, has been traveling lately. Most recently to Australia. There he spoke on the theme of &#8220;The Fall of the Christian West,&#8221; at a<br \/>\nsymposium organized by the Australian Catholic Students Association, Sydney. He gave &#8220;particular attention to the witness to the truth regarding human sexuality, as fundamental to holiness of life, and to the question of conscience as the irreplaceable and secure guide in the pursuit of holiness of life.&#8221; The cardinal also reflected on martyrdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">Among<br \/>\nmany things said in the address the Cardinal said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \">quoting Benedict XVI said, we &#8220;need to form our consciences, in accord with the moral teaching of the Church &#8230; &#8216;our responsibility to make these criteria [these moral foundations] <u>audible and intelligible<\/u> once more for people today as paths of true humanity, in the context of our paramount concern for mankind'&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \">&#8220;&#8230;<u>our call to build anew a<br \/>\nstrong Catholic culture<\/u>, in fidelity to our vocation to <u>give witness to Christ<\/u><br \/>\nand, therefore, to be martyrs for the faith&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \">&#8220;witness to the truth regarding<br \/>\nhuman sexuality, as fundamental to holiness of life, and to the question of<br \/>\nconscience as the irreplaceable and secure guide in the pursuit of holiness of<br \/>\nlife.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \">&#8220;The life of the martyr for the faith finds its <u>center and source in the<br \/>\nEucharistic sacrifice<\/u>, in Eucharistic adoration, and in all forms of<br \/>\nEucharistic devotion, especially visits to the Blessed Sacrament and spiritual<br \/>\ncommunion throughout the day&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \">&#8220;The Holy Eucharist not only strengthens us<br \/>\nspiritually to be true martyrs, but is <u>the model of our martyrdom<\/u>, pure and<br \/>\nselfless love, without condition, to the end.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"'Times New Roman'\">You ought to read the entire excellent address is here:&nbsp;<\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Cardinal%20R%20Burke%2C%20The%20Fall%20of%20the%20Christian%20West%2C%20March%2011%2C%202011.pdf\">Cardinal R Burke, The Fall of the Christian West, March 11, 2011.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Cardinal Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature, has been traveling lately. Most recently to Australia. There he spoke on the theme of &#8220;The Fall of the Christian West,&#8221; at a symposium organized by the Australian Catholic Students Association, Sydney. He gave &#8220;particular attention to the witness to the truth regarding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/cardinal-burke-on-the-truth-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cardinal Burke on the truth of human sexuality &#038; fall of Christian culture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1778,1968,1749,2407,2021],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}