Pope Francis Sends a Trumpist Priest Packing
The time to clean house of the fascist priests has come before Francis departs
The Vatican had to ask Cardinal Raymond Burke, a retired Trumpist cardinal from the United States obsessed with LGBTQ issues, to reconsider some of his more extravagant outfits.
A favorite of Benedict XVI, Cardinal Burke, who was previously best known for denying communion to John Kerry during the politician’s 2004 presidential campaign, has clashed with Francis repeatedly, even in choice of vestments. Unlike Francis, who preferred more modest priests, Cardinal Burke occasionally wore a long train of watered silk, velvet gloves and extravagant brocades that once prompted Vatican officials to ask him to “tone it down a bit (Pope Francis Is Evicting U.S. Cardinal).”
This is another lovely outfit of the “queer-hating” Cardinal. Burke has long been against any concessions to gay Catholics, and this has been one of the main reasons he shouts so vociferously from the backbench. He fears that “gay-loving” Francis is destroying the church.
Enough is enough, and good riddance because the self-hating cardinal and fascist will soon have to find another subsidized apartment where he has young men dress him in slinky negligees, I mean vestments, and
Francis frequently demoted and stripped the American cleric of influence, but this month, the pope apparently finally had enough, according to one high-ranking Vatican official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Francis told a meeting of high-ranking Vatican officials that he intended to throw the cardinal out of his Vatican-subsidized apartment and deprive him of his salary as a retired cardinal (Pope Francis Is Evicting U.S. Cardinal).”
Why is it that the fascists who shout the loudest about traditional values and bend over backward — no pun here intended — to tell us all that gay lifestyles are the “worstest” and that “it’s the gays who are causing all of the epidemics” are usually themselves exactly what they are preaching against?
Here is Cardinal Burke — oh, wait, sorry. My bad! This is Liberace.
Burke, like Trump, might have a point, though, because things are so bad for so many that maybe we need to let ourselves be distracted by the circus. Maybe we need to suspend belief and let ourselves be zoomed away by hypocrites and cowards like Raymond Burke and Donald Trump. Trumpist Catholics love Burke, of course, and they also think Pope Francis is “woke” and destroying the church.
Why is it that really stupid people think other stupid people have all the answers when, actually, what they are offering to put out the fires is more gasoline?
Raymond Burke will soon be homeless. I am sure Lindsey Graham has some room in his closet for him.
Burke is truly scary...