By Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews, March 27, 2020
To read Cardinal Burke’s complete Presentation, click here.
(CNSNews.com) — Catholic Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American who serves on the highest court at the Vatican, said the coronavirus should be viewed in natural terms and spiritual terms because “great evils like pestilence are an effect of original sin and our actual sins.”
God must “repair the disorder which sin introduces into our lives and into our world,” he said, and our response to the pandemic must include a consideration of our culture, which kills the unborn through abortion, neglects the elderly, and perverts human sexuality — God made them male and female — through “so-called ‘gender theory'” and even “violent” sex-change surgery.
Cardinal Burke, in his March 21 Presentation on his website, made clear that people should obey the advice of doctors and public officials about social distancing, washing our hands, and using “every prudent means to avoid contracting or spreading the coronavirus.” …