On July 31, 2024, Cardinal Raymond Burke gave a homily for the 16th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Church at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In this homily, Cardinal Burke addressed the controversial Olympic opening ceremony.
“Today, beset with the darkness and sin which is ever more given place in the world and even in the Church, we come to Our Lord through His Virgin Mother. On this past Friday, we witnessed an unbelievable manifestation of the darkness and sin in our world: the abominable mockery of the Holy Eucharist at its Institution for the opening of the Summer Olympics in Paris. It is difficult to imagine anything more debased and blasphemous. That such an act could take place shows us, in a most painful way, how what was once a Christian culture has become the theater of Satan and those who cooperate with his thoroughly evil plans, the plans of “a murderer from the beginning” who “has nothing to do with the truth,” the plans of “a liar and the father of lies.”[6] Our disgust and anger about what happened at the Summer Olympics awakens anew our consciousness of so many other manifestations of the open rebellion against God and His plan for our salvation in the world in which we live: attacks on human life and its cradle in the family created by the marriage of a man and a woman, and attacks on religion itself and its free exercise. In the Church, too, we witness the deliberate spread of confusion and error regarding the truths of our faith, the secularization of the Sacred Liturgy, and the lack of respect for the irreplaceable foundation of charity in the respect for justice and the rule of law…”
Read the full homily here.
