{"id":49383,"date":"2015-01-27T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T16:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/27\/because-catholic-churchs-problem-is-that-it-doesnt-have-enough-men.html"},"modified":"2015-01-27T16:59:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T16:59:02","slug":"because-catholic-churchs-problem-is-that-it-doesnt-have-enough-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/27\/because-catholic-churchs-problem-is-that-it-doesnt-have-enough-men.html","title":{"rendered":"Because Catholic Church&#039;s problem is that it doesn&#039;t have enough men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke decries the &quot;feminization&quot; of the Catholic Church, which apparently has spent so much time in the last fifty years coping with the troublesome womenfolk that they haven&#39;t had the time to deal with men and their needs. What the Church apparently needs, from Cardinal Burke&#39;s standpoint, is more manly-men priests and getting rid of altar girls (which &quot;has nothing to do with inequality of women in the Church&quot;).<\/p>\n<p>What the Pope apparently thinks it needs is shipping Cardinal Burke off to Malta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2015\/01\/13\/cardinal_raymond_burke_in_the_new_emangelization_women_have_ruined_the_catholic.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/nbJrt7GHy5AR9cbw8p45xCkP7LyVHv83SuexXlFAzDM89x9LXThH1pbKlQ4WpgQuF6E1Oepmrm-AgpjIAQ0-1shp0BGD-bWb29AxZ-MjIur-kBmCMOQrrPEwP3auDEWCSU5sRCdCGM3a1noZiCLjE9KZAfWJAqKSJWrVz_Dd_hUUAT9Ac4QMHXQGeMrIpIsUAsP0Csy7_B7QXLTWC41TrmPZ-KwStSlz3fwgRRrN2sjHRKLpJIbLI87MfkR3cj6UcBCh_-TudOO2LVZWfhZ4ey1XprO3_RpjT0RloMrIAXJ3Pe0VnUCOrQlbDTSJxlIut1aOiypoYa_q0xTmAYdOl5I6vwkA_O3bxeMJGAH9mGPQJsw=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2015\/01\/13\/cardinal_raymond_burke_in_the_new_emangelization_women_have_ruined_the_catholic.html'>American Cardinal Blames Women for &ldquo;Feminizing&rdquo; the Catholic Church<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nLast year, Pope Francis demoted American Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke by removing him as head of the Apostolic Signatura (the Vatican&#8217;s high court) and giving him a perfunctory post at the Knights of Malta. This was a big deal because Burke is a fire-breathing reactionary who rose high under Pope Benedict, and his demotion&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/YNrh8gKfygY'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course. Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke decries the &quot;feminization&quot; of the Catholic Church, which apparently has spent so much time in the last fifty years coping with the troublesome womenfolk that they haven&#39;t had the time to deal with men and their needs. What the Church apparently needs, from Cardinal Burke&#39;s standpoint, is more manly-men &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/27\/because-catholic-churchs-problem-is-that-it-doesnt-have-enough-men.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because Catholic Church&#039;s problem is that it doesn&#039;t have enough men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2214,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/24\/its_my_charity.html","url_meta":{"origin":49383,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s my charity, and I&#8217;ll snub who I want to","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Jul-02 10:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"Boston Cardinal Law yesterday told the media that he would not accept money raised by Voice of the Faithful, a grass roots organization that grew out of the church molestation...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Religion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/09\/in_case_anyone-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":49383,"position":1},"title":"In case anyone wondered whether They Get It or Not &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 9-Jun-02 7:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A prominent Cardinal knows who's to blame for the Catholic Pedophile Cover-Up Scandal: the media, of course. 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