Andy Burnham, Cafeteria Catholic

Yes, another one.

Ed Pentin just wrote a revealing article on the “Cultural Catholic” Andy Burnham, the expected next Prime Minister of the UK. Turns out Burnham is a Cafeteria Catholic, a “Catholic” who only believes and practices the Faith when it’s convenient — and very little of it is convenient for him. He is also a typical Leftist “Catholic” politician who pretends to be Catholic but wears the post-Vatican II gutted faith as a skin suit for votes.

Burnham says his politics have been deeply marked by a formative Catholic upbringing, even though he now describes himself as “not particularly religious” and rarely attends Mass. He has long been explicit about his childhood as a Catholic…

How has Roman Catholicism marked him? By giving him cover to be a Socialist, of course.

His roots are in the Liverpool and Warrington areas of northern England, parts of the country where Irish immigration, industrial labor and postwar housing estates helped to form dense Catholic communities, parishes and schools over the last century. During his upbringing there, he says he internalized Catholic social teaching as a kind of moral grammar.

A general discontent of wealth and social inequalities among its local population, these northern regions became especially fertile ground for socialism, also among Catholics, despite the Church’s traditional rejection of the political ideology….

Burnham recalled how the Church of his youth spoke up for “social equality and fairness in its broadest sense,” especially for those who had the least. His children attend Catholic schools because he says he still believes in “the values and the grounding it gives you,” but he takes issue with the Church’s moral teaching in key areas, especially on sexual ethics.

But, of course. Keep the supposed “catholic social teaching” but ditch that mean Biblical moral teaching. In fact, Burnham is downright “proud” of being the first Labour frontbencher to call for the legalization of same-sex “marriage”. Further, he has said he “drifted away” from the church because mean popes like John Paul II and Benedict XVI were “obsessed with sexuality and issues related to sexual behaviour.” But he just loves Pope Francis, of course.

Oh, and Burnham is doggedly pro-abortion, too, of course.

With “Catholics” like that, who needs Satanists?

But the Roman Catholic Church has enabled and even welcomed such selective, really perverted catholicism. Let’s call it Commie Cafeteria Catholicism (CCC) because it makes a cool acronym. Very public CCC adherents who use their gutted Catholicism for advantage, like Nancy Pelosi, are rarely confronted and almost never excommunicated. Instead they are welcomed as Pope Francis welcomed Andy Burnham. But then Francis met with Alexander Soros so I guess every prominent Globalist traitor is welcome. “Todos! Todos! Todos!” as Francis liked to say.

And even within the Church, while the faithful are punished by having the Traditional Latin Mass and kneeling communion and more taken away and are even threatened with excommunication as SSPX is, the likes of James Martin, Blaise Cupich, and Robert McElroy and their conferences “for LGBTQ Catholics” are fine, just fine.

And when it comes to Invaders and their victims, guess who Popes Francis and Leo side with? With the Invaders, of course, just like Andy Burnham. And you are just awful if you don’t like that. What did Francis say? “Hatred is the builder of walls.” If you want your society protected from invaders, you are a hater!

Heck, above I asked with “Catholics” like Burnham, who needs Satanists? I now have to confess a better question would be: With a Church of Rome like this, who needs a Church of Satan?

So maybe I started this off in the wrong direction. It turns out Andy Burnham fits right in with the Roman Catholic Church of today. So never mind.