Nella memoria della
dedicazione della Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, rilancio quest’articolo, in
relazione all’intervento nello scorso fine settimana del card. Burke a La
Crosse, in Wisconsin, sua antica diocesi prima di essere chiamato a Roma da
Benedetto XVI.
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| Pio XII incorona la Vergine Salus Populi Romani il 1° novembre 1954 |
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| Riproduzione dell'icona della Vergine Maria Salus Populi Romani, venerata nella Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Roma, XIX sec., British Museum, Londra |
In tale occasione, l’instancabile
porporato, che ha partecipato ad un incontro sul tema della famiglia (v. qui) lo scorso
fine settimana assieme a Mons. Salvatore Cordileone, arcivescovo di San
Francisco, ha avuto modo di avvertire, con parole dure ma vere, che « Error has
entered into the Church which is weakening the Church's witness to detriment of
the whole of society » (v. qui il servizio di Vortex).
One-Two
Punch in La Crosse
Two titans of orthodoxy are defending marriage and the
family
by Ryan Fitzgerald
LA CROSSE, Wis., August 3, 2015 (ChurchMilitant.com) - Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and Cdl. Raymond Leo Burke met in La
Crosse, Wisconsin, this weekend and spoke on marriage, the family and the
crisis in the Church, among other topics. The event, organized by the Queen of the Americas Guild, was part of the "Remaining in the Truth of Christ"
conference at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
In the keynote address, Cdl. Burke, former Prefect of the Apostolic
Signatura and current patron of the Sovereign Order of Malta, warned
the packed basilica of major problems inside and outside the Church. And it's
the weakness crippling the Church, says Cdl. Burke, that ends up harming the
rest of society.
He took last year's Extraordinary Synod on
the Family as the defining moment when the crisis within the Church became
undeniable. He believes the Synod took issues that the Church has always spoken
on with clarity and handled them — sometimes erroneously — with no consistent
reference to Church Tradition or the Magisterium. Especially telling, says Cdl.
Burke, is the way the Synod's discussions overlooked the evil in relationships
featuring such grave sins as adultery, premarital cohabitation and sodomy.
In addition, Cdl. Burke thinks many voices
in the Church, who want to see Her out in the fringes of the world, are getting
ahead of themselves. Right now, he affirms, the Church needs to regain a better
understanding of Her own doctrines instead of plunge recklessly into the
broader culture with vague, confused messages. Confronting the secular world
while withholding the truth from it would exhibit a siginificant lack of
charity, says Cdl. Burke.
A rising, subjectivity-centered
sentimentalism, or false compassion, is taking hold of both Catholics and
non-Catholics alike, he says, and it's distorting the objective truth about
marriage and family. The distortion leads those in sin to overlook the state of
their souls, giving them the impression that they're fine as long as they have
"love." The secular mass media, says the cardinal, are the prime
offenders in this regard.
He says without hesitation that the attack
on the family today is demonic and that Catholics must be willing and ready to
suffer for true, holy matrimony.
Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco
then gave a talk on the Virgin of Guadalupe, in which he lamented the lack of
fundamentals in the Church today. The main focus of his talk, however, was on
the way Marian devotion can help address the crisis today and heal the wounds
of separation. He stressed how Mary is the marriage between God's divinity and
our humanity.
God unites and joins things together; it
is fallen humanity, Abp. Cordileone points out, that tends to separate
them. One such separation, he noted, is the attempt to disintegrate the union
of doctrine and discipline in the Church. Yet, he affirms, these two principles
can never truly be undone, as discipline exists to reinforce doctrine.
The San Francisco prelate, who has been undergoing his own struggles in the Bay Area lately as he pursues new, more
faithful contracts for local Catholic school teachers, implores Catholics to
return to a proper practice of penance and fasting.
Explaining the fruits of sacrifice, he observes how
the Virgin Mary truly became the Mother of humanity when she joined herself to
the Cross.
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