Obama: "Who Will Rid Me of This Meddlesome Priest?"

OK, I'm not sure if Obama has actually said this, but I suspect he has been thinking it with all that Archbishop Burke has been saying lately. & I am sure some of his underlings definitely have thought it.

According to Austin Ruse: "A reliable source tells me that someone representing the Obama administration is about to put pressure on the papal nuncio to the United States to get Archbishop Raymond Burke to be quiet. The Obama complaint is that Archbishop Burke, who is now head of the Apostolic Signatura in Rome, has supported another bishop in his chastisement of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius for her support of abortion."

As he goes on to point out: "You can see why the Obama administration might get upset about this. They played footsie with pet Catholics of left and right last year and thought they had this kind of problem covered, since some of them have already offered cover for Sebelius. Two groups created to offer such services, Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance, started a petition drive saying Sebelius was really pro-life."

So what it boils down to is that their fraud is being unmasked. & they don't like it.

& while this reaction is in response to a recent interview that Archbishop Burke gave to the San Diego-based organization Catholic Action for Faith and Family, I am sure that the more recen interview with Randall Terry didn't calm the waters at the White House. & these are only a couple of the recent statements made.

& while Archbishop Burke is leading the way, a few other Bishops like Martino have also been vocal lately. But, given Burke's high position & visibility, it is no surprize that he might be drawing the most fire. I say might because nothing definite has happenned yet. But, I highly suspect that the Obama administration will attempt some move.

They are unhappy at Burke's pointing out her unfitness to head HHS. "But it’s not just questioning her fitness for office that offends Obama and his Catholics. They are also offended about Burke questioning Sebelius’s fidelity to the Catholic Church, for this strikes at the heart of their appeal to Catholics in the pews. Catholics who believe the Democratic answer to health care is more important than the murder of a million children a year desperately need the fiction that someone like Sebelius is a Catholic in good standing. Burke gives the lie to that assertion."

Remember, they are doing this in the face of what her own Bishop has said. But they know that they can downplay what Archbishop Joseph Naumann has said because there are plenty of American Bishops who have disagreed. But when a top Vatican official says something, it makes things all the more difficult. Esp since, in the past, they have used statements by other Vatican officials to attack President Bush's policies. I guess it is OK for a Vatican VIP to speak out & make it look like the Vatican is on their side when it upholds their positions, but when 1 points out what is wrong with what they want. . . Suddenly they are finding out that the knife cuts both ways & they don't like it.

"By trying to stop a bishop from commenting on internal Church matters, the Obama administration wades into dangerous waters. Archbishop Burke is the head of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican office that is charged with interpreting the Code of Canon Law. The proper reception of Communion is proper to the Code of Canon Law, and therefore proper to any bishop, and especially to Archbishop Burke." & that is what makes Archbishop Burke's comments all the more dangerous, his position in the Vatican.

"The pressure won't work, of course. Burke is just too smart, and tough. But Obama and his representatives are coming dangerously close to interfering in internal Church matters. More than anything else, the free exercise clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution was intended precisely to protect religious bodies from meddling by the state, even covert meddling by the White House like this. Obama and his pet Catholics should back off – and fast."

Of course, given the track record of this administration, I doubt that upholding the Constitution is high on their list of priorities. (Something that the Bush & previous administrations helped set a dangerous precidence for.) But, I think that Obama & the so called "Catholics" (quislings really) working for him might do well to learn a lesson from what happenned when King Henry II tried to silence Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. The Archbishop is now a martyr & saint & Henry II has gone down in history as a villian. & while I doubt that anyone in the Obama gang has any plans to assasinate Archbishop Burke, he might do well to watch his back while following St. Thomas' lead in continuing to speak out fearlessly.

Source: Hey, Obama: Hands Off Burke