A distinguished US cardinal who criticized the vaccine is now on a ventilator after getting COVID-19.
Raymond L. Burke, 73, is being handled in a Wisconsin hospital simply days after confirming he had examined constructive for the virus.
“Cardinal Burke has been admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 and is being assisted by a ventilator. Doctors are encouraged by his progress,” a tweet from his account stated on Saturday.
Four days prior, Burke had tweeted: “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.”
Throughout the pandemic, Burke has been skeptical of the vaccine and the lockdown measures launched to cease the unfold of the virus.
Regarding lockdowns and attainable vaccine mandates, Cardinal Burke stated, “Whatever the state proposes must respect God and His Law.”Andrew Medichini/AP
He claimed final yr that any potential vaccine mandates launched by US states “violates the integrity of its citizens.”
“While the state can provide reasonable regulations for the safeguarding of health, it is not the ultimate provider of health. God is. Whatever the state proposes must respect God and His Law,” he stated at a Rome Life Forum in Italy in May final yr.
At one level through the discussion board, Burke referenced how the J&J shot was produced utilizing a cell line derived from an aborted fetus, saying: “It should be clear that it is by no means morally justified to develop a vaccine by means of the usage of the cell strains of aborted fetuses.
Cardinal Raymond Burke stated COVID-19 was utilized by sure forces “to advance their evil agenda.”Alessandra Tarantino/AP
“The thought of the introduction of such a vaccine into one’s body is rightly abhorrent.”
J&J did use fetal cell strains within the improvement of its vaccine, however this is not the identical as fetal tissue or DNA — and the vaccine itself doesn’t comprise any aborted fetal cells, in line with Reuters.
Fetal cell strains are derived from decades-old fetal cells — not latest abortions — which then replicate over a long time in laboratory settings. Fetal cell strains are 1000’s of occasions faraway from the unique fetus cells.
Burke additionally referred to COVID because the “Wuhan virus” throughout a homily in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in December.
Burke stated the virus had been “used by certain forces, inimical to families and to the freedom of nations, to advance their evil agenda.”
While he criticized the COVID-19 vaccine, it’s unclear whether or not Cardinal Burke acquired the shot.Gregorio Borgia/AP
He added: “These forces tell us that we are now the subjects of the so-called ‘Great Reset,’ the ‘new normal,’ which is dictated to us by their manipulation of citizens and nations through ignorance and fear.”
He criticized some churchgoers for not believing that Jesus might defend them from COVID.
It is not clear if Burke — who is a former archbishop of St. Louis — ended up receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
