Yesterday at the Rome Life Forum, Cardinal Raymond Burke, a most vociferous critic of the pope, gave a long presentation entitled “Fatima: Heaven’s Answer to a World in Crisis.” And here I sit, thinking that Christ was the answer. Burke’s talk was 5,166 words long, and about half of it had to do with Fatima, the evils of China, and the importance of consecrating Russia: red meat for the Catholic hard right. In the process he also managed to promote discredited conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic and misstate Church teaching on a number of points.
Read moreCardinal Burke’s long-winded promotion of COVID-19 conspiracy theories.
BY: Henry Matthew Alt • May 21, 2020 • Blind Guides & False Prophets