News Item: : ''Christ is the Victor'' - Words of Encouragement from Cardinal Raymond Burke
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Monday 02 March 2015 - 11:27:58

Rorate Caeli has posted an exclusive interview with Cardinal Raymond Burke this morning. The original is well worth reading in its entirety to discover something of the cardinal's pastoral care and concern for traditional Catholics. The interview also ranges through prominent issues such as: Vatican officials threatening to sue bloggers; the dismantling of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate; and the regular confusion emanating from Pope Francis.

We reproduce here words of encouragement from His Eminence to traditional Catholics. In light of our experiences in recent years, we find the last paragraph to be particularly helpful.

Rorate Caeli: What words of encouragement can Your Eminence give to traditional Catholics who are struggling to save their souls and the souls of their children in this modern world, and without, it sometimes seems, any help from Rome?

Cardinal Burke: I frequently say to those who are writing to me and are expressing such discouragement, or are asking for direction in what seems to be a very troubled situation, that when, in times like this, there seems to be some confusion in the governance of the Church, then we have, more than ever, to steep ourselves in the Church's constant teaching and to hand that on to our children and to strengthen the understanding of that teaching in our local parishes and our families. And Our Lord has assured us - He didn't tell us that there wouldn't be attacks on the Church, even from within, but He has assured us that the gates of Hell will never prevail over the Church. 

In other words, Satan, with his deceptions, will never finally prevail in the Church. We have to have that confidence about us and go about it with great joy and great determination, in teaching the Faith, or in giving witness with apologetics to souls who don't understand the Faith or who have not yet become members of the Church. We know that the gates of Hell will not prevail, but in the meantime, our way is the Way of the Cross. And when we have to suffer for the sake of what we believe, what we know to be true, we can embrace that suffering with the knowledge of the final outcome: that is, that Christ is the victor. He is the one that ultimately overcomes all of the forces of evil in the world and restores us and our world to the Father. 

That is the way in which I try to encourage faithful Catholics. I think it's important, too, that devout traditional Catholics get to know one another and support one another, to bear one another's burdens, as the Scripture says. We ought to be prepared to do that and be sensitive to families that might be suffering some particular difficulty in this regard, and try to be as close to one another as possible.    

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