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These Last Days News - October 28, 2010

Cardinal-Designate Burke a Vocal Leader on Moral, Political Issues...

"All who become part of or condone abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!" - Jesus, June 2, 1979

When Cardinal-designate Raymond L. Burke was named in 2008 to head the Vatican's highest tribunal, he came to the post with the reputation of being one of the most outspoken U.S. bishops on moral and political issues.

Some pundits wondered whether the appointment to the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature would in effect sideline someone so vocal, but since taking the Vatican post, he has been anything but silent.

He has insisted that holy Communion be refused to Catholic politicians who actively support legal abortion, said the Democratic Party in the United States "risks transforming itself definitively into a 'party of death,'" and said nothing could justify casting a ballot for a candidate who supports "anti-life" and "anti-family" legislation.

During the 2004 U.S. elections, he was one of the first U.S. bishops to say publicly that he would withhold Communion from Catholic politicians with voting records that contradicted church teaching on abortion, euthanasia and other fundamental moral issues.

Afterward he told Catholic News Service he was convinced of the need to raise pro-life issues with voters and to continue to promote "awareness of the moral law."

Pope Benedict XVI named the 62-year-old prelate as one of 24 new cardinals Oct. 20. After he is installed in the College of Cardinals Nov. 20 at the Vatican, Cardinal-designate Burke will serve as an adviser to the pope and be eligible to vote in a papal election until his 80th birthday.

"Only the knowledge of God's immeasurable and unceasing outpouring of mercy and love from the glorious pierced heart of Jesus gives me the confidence to accept the great honor and burden which His Holiness intends to confer upon me," Cardinal-designate Burke said in a statement.

He expressed gratitude to the pope and said his thoughts also turned to his late parents, his many family members, priests, religious and laypeople who have supported him in his vocation for the last 35 years.

But he also is mindful of "the many challenges which the church faces in our day in carrying out her divine mission for the salvation of the world. ... I am deeply conscious of the critical importance of the loving witness of the church to the truth," he said.

The cardinal-designate had been in St. Louis as archbishop for four years when Pope Benedict named him the head of the Apostolic Signature. Before that he was bishop of La Crosse, Wis., from 1995 to 2004.

A canon lawyer, the archbishop worked for the Apostolic Signature from 1989 to 1994 and was named a member of the body in July 2006. He also served on the Roman Rota, the church's central appeals court which hears appeals from lower church court decisions around the world, chiefly in marriage annulment cases.

Last year, he also was named to the Congregation for Bishops, a congregation that meets about every two weeks to review candidates for vacant dioceses and make their recommendations to the pope. He will help shape the world's episcopate.

In July of this year, he also became a member of the Congregation for Saints' Causes.

The cardinal-designate, a native of Richland Center, Wis., was born June 30, 1948. He attended Catholic schools in Richland Center and Stratford and high school at Holy Cross Seminary in La Crosse.

Following college and theological studies at Holy Cross Seminary, The Catholic University of America in Washington and Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he was ordained a priest June 29, 1975, by Pope Paul VI at St. Peter's Basilica.

Cardinal-designate Burke's first assignment as a priest was as associate rector of the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman in La Crosse. He returned to Rome from 1980 to 1984 to study canon law at Gregorian University. He returned briefly to the La Crosse Diocese in 1984, serving as moderator of the curia and vice chancellor of the diocese. The following year, he again returned to Rome as a visiting professor of canon law at Gregorian University and he taught at the school until his 1994 appointment as bishop of La Crosse.

He is among a group of eight bishops who issued a letter in July 2002 asking their fellow prelates to consider holding a plenary council to promote holiness, priestly celibacy and sound sexual morality in the U.S. church. Their letter said such a council could help to address the root causes of the sexual abuse crisis.

During the 2004 election year, he said he would refuse to give Communion to the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., a Catholic who supports legal abortion. His announcement prompted debate about the church's role in politics and about the liturgical rules on denying Communion.

Weeks after the 2004 elections, he told Catholic News Service he said was glad he raised pro-life issues with Catholic voters and was convinced of the need to continue to promote "awareness of the moral law."

"There's no sense on my part of having accomplished something and now being finished with it," he said.

He also noted that refusing Communion to lawmakers who do not support church teaching is a pastoral responsibility and a way for the church to show it is serious about these fundamental issues.

While he was archbishop of St. Louis, the cardinal-designate faced some difficult issues. In 2005, he approved a parish consolidation plan that closed 24 parishes and 10 elementary schools in the archdiocese.

Before his appointment in St. Louis, the cardinal-designate told the St. Louis Review, the archdiocesan newspaper, that his most fulfilling moments as a priest were his years of teaching, especially in priestly formation.

He said the most difficult challenge he had faced as a bishop was "dealing with dissent within the church and with the secular ideas that have insidiously entered in." The cardinal-designate, six years ago, also noted that curia and pastors would likely characterize his leadership style as "clear, definite, strong."

At the time, he reaffirmed top priority that seems to still hold true for him today: "to teach the dignity of human life from conception to natural death."

"If we don't teach that, there isn't much else that we can teach that will make much sense," he said. "We as Catholics are called constantly to give witness to the inviolability of the life of the unborn."

It is a mortal sin for a Roman Catholic to vote for a pro-choice or a pro-abort politician.  This mortal sin be must be confessed before receiving the Most Holy Eucharist.

    "Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man.  Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
    "I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976

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THE UNITED STATES SHALL BE FIRST STRUCK
"One of the reasons the Eternal Father chose your city and your state for My appearance was because of abortion, the murder of the holy innocents. Your nation, without repentance, shall be the first struck." - Our Lady, March 15, 1978

THE UNITED STATES SHALL FALL
"How can a great country like the United States fall, you say, My child?  You ask Me in your heart.  I read your heart.  I will tell you why.  Because they have given themselves over to satan.  When a country has lost its morality and seeks the pleasures of the flesh, giving over, themselves over, to all manner of abominations, like homosexuality, and condoning this up the highest courts of the land, then that country shall fall." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985

DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

FOULEST OF DEEDS
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
     "I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976 

DESTROYED
"All who become part of or condone abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!" - Jesus, June 2, 1979

HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED
"The Eternal Father commands that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
     "Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady, August 5, 1971

WILL NEVER BE CONDONED
"You will remember, My children and My child, to guard the young. Your clergy have fallen into darkness. Abortion will never be condoned. But We must have others who fervently will go forward and bring out to the minds of those who have actually seduced the country and the children--bring them the knowledge of Heaven, hell and purgatory. Then they will not have free license to sin." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady, April 14, 1984

NUNS
"That is what makes My heart ache, My child. That is one of the reasons Theresa is crying constantly when she looks into the convents and sees what is going on. Many now believe in abortion, the murders of the children; and many have committed this act upon themselves." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

TREATED AS GARBAGE
"O My child, My tears fall upon you all when I see all of the innocent little babies being slaughtered . . . cast into garbage pails like nothing but dirt and scum. They are living human beings! And all murderers shall get their just recompense." - Our Lady, March 18, 1983

BOMBS IN THE UNITED STATES
"These interlopers upon the serenity of the United States have dark skins.... With their plans there will be bombs placed in strategic places and many shall die at the hands of these ruffians....
     "One big reason for permitting this disaster in New York would be the abortion mills throughout the city and the country." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

VESTIGE OF FEAR
"Bishops! Cardinals! If you do not love My Son, have you no vestige of fear? Do you think you will stand before Him and say that your teaching has been pure in His sight? He shall cast you aside as the vipers you have become in the destruction of souls. He shall cast you into the abyss and eternal damnation. You fool no one. The Eternal Father has been most patient." - Our Lady, July 25, 1979

PRIDE
"The Eternal Father shall chastise those He loves. Shall you be counted among the sheep or the goats, bishops? Strip yourselves of your pride and your arrogance! For pride is a more formidable barrier against sanctity than even outright licentiousness! Pride comes before the fall, and all that is rotten shall fall!" - Jesus, October 2, 1979

EXPERIMENTING
"My child and My children, I come once more with an urgent and pleading message to the hierarchy in the Church, My Church upon earth. I want you to know now that We look upon you and find many that do not fall into grace. They are falling out of grace and misleading many of Our sheep. Therefore, I warn you now as your God: You will stop your intricacies within My Church. You will stop experimenting. I gave you the rules to follow many years ago, two thousand years approximately. And why now, two thousand years later, do you deem it necessary to change My Church upon earth?" - Jesus, June 18, 1986

IN RETURN
"I say unto the cardinals and bishops in My Son's Church: I am much grieved at your conduct. You will be accountable to the Eternal Father for the destruction of souls. And the abuses that go forward against My Son cannot be tolerated by the Eternal Father. My Son suffers greatly upon earth. Have you forgotten so soon how He sacrificed His very Being for you all? And what are you doing in return?" - Our Lady, October 2, 1989

SMOKE OF SATAN
"I ask you as your God to cast away your pride. Admit there has been error. Listen to your Vicar who stated that the smoke of satan had entered My Church....You are blinded, My hierarchy. You seek to bring all into My Church, but this must be by conversion. You are allowing all manner of heretics and the antichrist forces to enter among you. You are being deceived. Awaken from your slumber." - Jesus, September 28, 1978

CONSECRATE RUSSIA
"This is My direction from Heaven--and We hope, My children, that you will get this out to the world--unless the bishops and the Holy Father in unity with all the bishops of the world--unless they consecrate Russia to My Mother's Immaculate Heart, the world will be doomed! Because Russia will continue to spread her errors throughout the world, rising up wars and carnage and pestilence and famine....
     "I wish that all who hear My words this evening will go forward and besiege, if necessary, the Holy Father and the bishops with the request for this consecration of Russia. We do not mean the world, My children, We mean Russia!" - Jesus, June 17, 1989

HOLY SPIRIT
"At the time of conception, the Holy Spirit makes the child, and the breath of the Almighty gives it life." - Our Lady, June 18, 1991

LIMBO
"And what, My children, are We going to do with all the aborted babies? O My child, I know you feel as I do, for I can see the great distress on your face. What are We going to do, My child? Do you understand when they come to Us, they must go to Limbo? They are in Heaven, a happy place, but they cannot see God." - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

SORROWFULLY
"Sorrowfully, the penance that is to come upon the world for the murders of the unborn shall be a chastisement far greater in severity than man has ever witnessed in the past nor ever shall pass through again. Your world is plunging into a deep chasm of suffering and destruction." - Our Lady, May 20, 1978

OATH
"Your once loyal to the oath of a doctor, your once loyal doctors are now butchers! For money they kill the young!" - Our Lady, February 10, 1978

WOE TO THE WOMAN
"Know, My child, this simple lesson, that in these days of the latter times, women will seek to cast off their role as mother and a woman. Women will cast it off under the direction of satan, and murder her children. Woe to the woman who does not repent of this vile abomination! She has walked the road to eternal damnation and hell. Repent, O woman, or forever be lost!" - Our Lady, March 18, 1975  

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