Covid vaccine-denying cardinal placed on ventilator in Wisconsin after contracting virus

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Cardinal Burke, nemesis of Pope Francis, claimed vaccine was a microchip


… reportedly in Wisconsin hospital


An archconservative cardinal who was fired from his post in 2014 by Pope Francis and has questioned the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccine has been placed on a ventilator according to a St. Louis newspaper. 


Cardinal Raymond Burke has questioned the value of a Covid-19 vaccine and has called the entire Covid situation part of an evil agenda by certain forces in the world and reportedly refused to take a vaccine. 


He was reportedly taken ill while visiting the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. He confirmed the disease in a bizarre tweet last week,


Cardinal Burke

@cardinalrlburke


Praised be Jesus Christ! I wish to inform you that I have recently tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Thanks be to God, I am resting comfortably and receiving excellent medical care. Please pray for me as I begin my recovery. Let us trust in Divine Providence. God bless you.


Twitter 6:35 PM · Aug 10, 2021


Vaccines are “totalitarian”


According to a conservative website, Burke said that the vaccine would place a microchip in a person,


According to LifeSiteNews.Com, Burke in a May 2020 address to the Rome Life Forum said vaccinations should not be forced "in a totalitarian manner" on people.


Burke, the website said, also said "there is a certain movement to insist that now everyone must be vaccinated against the coronavirus COVID-19 and even that a kind of microchip needs to be placed under the skin of every person, so that any moment he or she can be controlled by the State regarding health and about other matters which we can only imagine."


Daniel Neman, “Cardinal Burke, former archbishop of St. Louis, has COVID-19, 

is on ventilator,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 14, 2021


Removed from Vatican post by Pope Francis


After he assumed the papacy in 2013, Pope Francis made plans to remove Burke, a strident right-winger, from his position at the Vatican that he was appointed to by Pope Benedict XVI who was forced to resign because of problems with the Vatican Bank and Curia,


Pope Francis removed U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke, 66, as head of the Vatican's highest court and named him to a largely ceremonial post for a chivalric religious order.


Burke, formerly prefect of the Apostolic Signature, will now serve as cardinal patron of the Knights and Dames of Malta, the Vatican announced Saturday.


The move had been widely expected since an Italian journalist reported it in September, and the cardinal himself confirmed it to reporters the following month.


It is highly unusual for a pope to remove an official of Burke's stature and age without assigning him comparable responsibilities elsewhere. By church law, cardinals in the Vatican must offer to resign at 75, but often continue in office for several more years. 


As usual when announcing personnel changes other than retirements for reasons of age, the Vatican did not give a reason for the cardinal's reassignment.


A prominent devotee of the traditional liturgy and outspoken defender of traditional doctrine on controversial moral issues, Burke had appeared increasingly out of step with the current pontificate.


In December 2013, Pope Francis did not reappoint him to his position on the Congregation for Bishops, which advises the pope on episcopal appointments.


Francis X. Rocca, “Pope removes Cardinal Burke from Vatican post,” Catholic News Service/National Catholic Reporter, November 10, 2021


No condition has been released about Burke except for the tweets that have been coming from his account. 

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