Cardinal Burke on manhood, the sacred liturgy, and the abuse crisis
January 09, 2015
In an interview with the New Emangelization Project blog, Cardinal Raymond Burke reflected on manhood, family life, the sacred liturgy, catechesis, the abuse crisis, and the “very feminized” environment in the Church.
“I think there has been a great confusion with regard to the specific vocation of men in marriage and of men in general in the Church during the past 50 years or so,” said Cardinal Burke, now patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. “It’s due to a number of factors, but the radical feminism which has assaulted the Church and society since the 1960s has left men very marginalized.”
“The crisis between man and woman has been made much worse by a complete collapse of catechesis in the Church,” he continued. “There was a very fluffy, superficial kind of catechetical approach to the question of human sexuality and the nature of the marital relationship.”
He added:
We can also see that our seminaries are beginning to attract many strong young men who desire to serve God as priests. The new crop of young men are manly and confident about their identity. This is a welcome development, for there was a period of time when men who were feminized and confused about their own sexual identity had entered the priesthood; sadly some of these disordered men sexually abused minors, a terrible tragedy for which the Church mourns.
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