It might be a bit spookey but it is mostly a wonderfully soothing response from Cardinal Burke. Simply wonderful spiritual advice here that we must pick ourselves up anew each day and set out as pilgrims on the way to our eternal destination, picking up our Cross as we go. We must persevere to the end, we must run the race to the end, we must fight the good fight.
I have been following Sean Ryan for about 4 years. He has interviewed several of my favorite people. FrDan Reehil and Fr Ripperger and Dan Schneider who worked with Fr Ripperger. He has returned to his Catholic faith after a hard and dangerous life. He was a Navy Seal and had severe PTSD and treatment that involved psychedelics. Bad idea!! I am so pleased to see Cardinal BUrke interviewed with him. Shawn has the potential to be a great Catholic evangelist.
I was very surprised to see Cardinal Burke agree with Sean that it was Demons afflicting him, That would not have been my first port of call in Discernment, it would have been regarding the condition of his brain, as it would with everyone who suggested such a thing. Then after ruling out the brain then move onto the paranormal. Not demons first. Personally to me Sean looks very unwell. I am not being negative about the poor man, but I think he needs a lot of help. Assuring him that it was indeed Demons was not the kind of help he needed. It is only affirming him in this stuff. Not a helpful diagnosis, plus it does not make us Catholics look too good. The Cardinal would have done well at least have asked them to switch off the camera so they could talk about this stuff in private, not in front of half the planet.
I thought exorcisms were supposed to be kept strictly secret? Like, not openly disclose whatever occurs in the process?
I think they try to keep the details of the poor victim hidden. I used to like the Exorcists kinda coming out of the closets and going public. But now there is far, far too much of it. It would be better if they stopped going public for a while. It maybe uncovers an unhealthy interest in the subject. Enough is enough. There must be dozens of them doing interviews now. Also it can lead to seeing demons under every carpet so to speak, we can become obssessive about it all
I don't think it is too healthy to think about the devil too much. One time St Teresa of Avila's father was going on a retreat and he told her he was going to meditate on the devil and hell. She advised him not to. Wise. Small doses. We are getting a deluge of exorcists at the moment.
I think that if the preternatural pheneomenon are true then it is the demonic and perhaps that is why C. Burke was in agreement. If might be the case that C. Burke had been briefed beforehand by Fr Ripperger
Maybe. It is possible. But the impression on the video was that it was an on the hoof discernment about something so serious. If there had been deeper off screen discernment it would have been much , much better to give this clarity onscreen when he gave it. I have to say my impression was that the Cardinal did this on the spot. It is always possible that he received very,very special graces from God to do this. But it makes me uneasy. If someone was to tell us publically that he is being attacked by demons I don't think the best or most wise response would be to go along with it, for obvious reasons.
