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Tom Deignan @IrishCentral March 06, 2017
How about pedophiles and the people who protect them?
In recent weeks, interesting stories about President Trump’s right-hand Irish Catholic man Steve Bannon have been trickling out. Among the revelations: he’s got kind of a man-crush on fellow Irish Catholic and former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke.
Burke ended up on Pope Francis’ bad side — more on that later — and was booted upstairs to a job at the Vatican. For a while, Burke seemed a raging relic.
At a time when Pope Francis was talking about opening doors, not judging people and protecting the weak — you know, all those crazy things Jesus spoke of — Burke represented the opposition. He proudly wanted to go backward, not forward.
Make the Vatican great again, if you will.
In the end, Burke was out in the cold. But Trump’s election — and Bannon’s budding alliance with Burke — has made him an influential figure again. This should enrage the millions of Irish Americans and other Catholics who voted for Trump.
Rewind to October 2010. Millions — faithful as well as lapsed Catholics — were still absorbing the sex abuse revelations. That’s when Burke was promoted to cardinal by Pope Benedict.
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