Cardinal Burke on Ventilator with Covid

[Luigi]

Report from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the daily newspaper where Burke was archbishop. Progress seems to be good, but one never knows, do one? He was never my favorite prelate, but a prelate he is, so we ought to pray for him. 

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cardinal-burke-has-covid-is-on-ventilator/article_28639900-9c76-5481-b7ad-62266e605d0b.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest

[hakutaku]

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In a homily given last December, Burke called COVID the “Wuhan virus,” and said, “It has been used by certain forces inimical to families and to the freedom of nations, to advance their evil agenda.”

Poll:  Was Burke's infection with COVID

• A plot by "certain forces inimical to families and the freedom of nations?"
• An inevitable consequence of failing to follow expert medical guidance?

[Peace]

17 minutes ago, hakutaku said:

Poll:  Was Burke's infection with COVID

• A plot by "certain forces inimical to families and the freedom of nations?"
• An inevitable consequence of failing to follow expert medical guidance?

You really don't want to make any friends here it seems.

[hakutaku]

25 minutes ago, Peace said:

You really don't want to make any friends here it seems.

Aww come on, Burke's fans understand the small hope that people's health will impact their ability to spread messages.

On 1/31/2005 at 6:46 PM, BurkeFan said:

Unfortunately, she's still appearing at Canisus College.

 

 

[ardillacid]

10 hours ago, hakutaku said:

Poll:  Was Burke's infection with COVID

• A plot by "certain forces inimical to families and the freedom of nations?"
• An inevitable consequence of failing to follow expert medical guidance?

Auths have used covid to roll up and centralize power, no question. 

[SicutColumba]

11 hours ago, hakutaku said:

Poll:  Was Burke's infection with COVID

• A plot by "certain forces inimical to families and the freedom of nations?"
• An inevitable consequence of failing to follow expert medical guidance?

Really, this is in outrageously poor taste. Have a bit of compassion and stop trying to take advantage of every possible situation to tell us how oh-so-morally superior you are. 

[hakutaku]

2 hours ago, SicutColumba said:

Have a bit of compassion

My sin here is not lack of compassion, it is having compassion for the wrong people. 

Cartinal Burke has shepherded his flock down a dangerous path.  His flock has unnecessarily had many cases of COVID that are every bit as harrowing and traumatic as Burke's own.  For the suffering of the flock under the stewardship of a poor shepherd, my heart goes out.

For the poor shepherd, the best I can do is to hope he survives to steer his flock back to the right path. 

 

I am reminded of a "News from Lake Wobegon" segment about a bad bus driver who drinks while he drives, takes the kids lunch money, and shares his magazines.  Once he is reported, he is given a 1 week notice.  On the last day he drives his bus out onto a frozen lake and abandons the kids.

Once the incident is resolved, Keillor remarks "and you know, not much was said about it.  This was back in the days when a lot was not said about a great deal.  Things happened in my childhood that nowadays there would be an investigation and a task force and the whole system would be turned around counterclockwise because of this one thing that had happened... the whole thing would have been changed, but back then nothing was said about it; it was just a part of life."

In many ways the church is an organization stuck in the mindset Keillor describes.  Pointing out problems or hoping for change is distasteful rocking of the boat.  If our flocks occasionally get left out on a frozen lake by themselves, well that's preferable to facing the reality that our way of doing things needs to change.

[BurkeFan]

14 hours ago, hakutaku said:

Aww come on, Burke's fans understand the small hope that people's health will impact their ability to spread messages.

 

 

This is a very weird callback / call out... You do realize that I set up this account over seventeen years ago, right? 

[Peace]

25 minutes ago, hakutaku said:

My sin here is not lack of compassion, it is having compassion for the wrong people. 

Cartinal Burke has shepherded his flock down a dangerous path.  His flock has unnecessarily had many cases of COVID that are every bit as harrowing and traumatic as Burke's own.  For the suffering of the flock under the stewardship of a poor shepherd, my heart goes out.

For the poor shepherd, the best I can do is to hope he survives to steer his flock back to the right path. 

 

I am reminded of a "News from Lake Wobegon" segment about a bad bus driver who drinks while he drives, takes the kids lunch money, and shares his magazines.  Once he is reported, he is given a 1 week notice.  On the last day he drives his bus out onto a frozen lake and abandons the kids.

Once the incident is resolved, Keillor remarks "and you know, not much was said about it.  This was back in the days when a lot was not said about a great deal.  Things happened in my childhood that nowadays there would be an investigation and a task force and the whole system would be turned around counterclockwise because of this one thing that had happened... the whole thing would have been changed, but back then nothing was said about it; it was just a part of life."

In many ways the church is an organization stuck in the mindset Keillor describes.  Pointing out problems or hoping for change is distasteful rocking of the boat.  If our flocks occasionally get left out on a frozen lake by themselves, well that's preferable to facing the reality that our way of doing things needs to change.

You are just being a jerk. Are all atheists this annoying or just you?

Look, if you disagree with what Burke and others have said about the virus that is fine, and you are free to object to it. Many of those objections I and others may also share.

But when a man gets ill, it's not a time to gloat. All of this "concern" that you are now expressing is a bunch of BS. Nobody here buys that. You are just faking it because you got called out. You are acting like a snake and everybody here knows it.

Edited August 15, 2021 by Peace

[hakutaku]

5 minutes ago, Peace said:

But when a man gets ill, it's not a time to gloat.

I can think of no better time to re-evaluate that man's advice on how to avoid getting ill.

As I said in that post: people don't like their boat to be rocked.  They will call the person rocking the boat a jerk.  But I personally believe the alternative (not rocking the boat out of fear of being called a jerk) is far worse.  That leads to situations like the covering up of sex abuse in the clergy.

[Peace]

50 minutes ago, hakutaku said:

I can think of no better time to re-evaluate that man's advice on how to avoid getting ill.

As I said in that post: people don't like their boat to be rocked.  They will call the person rocking the boat a jerk.  But I personally believe the alternative (not rocking the boat out of fear of being called a jerk) is far worse.  That leads to situations like the covering up of sex abuse in the clergy.

Dude you don't give a flying F about either of those issues. You are here to virtue signal and criticize people so that you can feel morally superior. Everyone sees that.

[hakutaku]

2 minutes ago, Peace said:

You are here to virtue signal and criticize people so that you can feel morally superior.

Who am I virtue signalling to?  The large atheist contingent on this board?

If anyone is virtue signalling, it is the people acting outraged over fair criticisms of church leadership and competing over who can be the toughest on atheism.

[Peace]

9 minutes ago, hakutaku said:

Who am I virtue signalling to? 

Yourself, which makes it all the more pathetic.

 

And the rest of us, who saw right through it.

And nobody needs to be "tough" on atheism. The idiocy of it speaks for itself.

"Have a nice day".

[hakutaku]

1 hour ago, Peace said:

And nobody needs to be "tough" on atheism. The idiocy of it speaks for itself.

Haha!  Perhaps if Catholics were tougher on idiotic ideas they wouldn't have a cardinal who believes in microchipped vaccines.

[SicutColumba]

1 hour ago, hakutaku said:

Haha!  Perhaps if Catholics were tougher on idiotic ideas they wouldn't have a cardinal who believes in microchipped vaccines.

Dude, most of us on this board, myself included, do not agree with Cardinal Burke’s stances on the vaccine and on covid. That has nothing to do with his role as bishop. And what he said on this subject (which changes nothing about our faith) does not give you the right to come on here and act like a cold, cruel jerk when somebody is earnestly asking for prayers for one of our Church leaders. 
 

I mean, do you want him to die? Because that’s the vibe I’m getting from your posts.