By church law, cardinals in the Vatican must offer to resign at 75, but often continue in office for several more years. It is highly unusual for a pope to remove an official of Cardinal Burke’s stature and age without assigning him comparable responsibilities elsewhere. The move had been widely expected since an Italian journalist reported it in September, and the cardinal himself confirmed it to reporters the following month. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)Ĭardinal Burke, formerly prefect of the Apostolic Signature, will now serve as cardinal patron of the Knights and Dames of Malta, the Vatican announced Nov. 8, the Vatican announced that Cardinal Burke had been removed as head of the Vatican’s highest court. Burke, arrive at the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct.
Dolan of New York, Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, and Raymond L. Burke, 66, as head of the Vatican’s highest court and named him to a largely ceremonial post for a chivalric religious order. So this is a very serious situation.VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis removed U.S. “You never hear talk about what Our Lord Jesus Christ is teaching us, what he’s asking of us. “You will notice that in a lot of this talk, you never hear the name of Our Lord,” Cardinal Burke said. And so we need to wake up to what is happening.” “And what it does is it renders the Church then into some kind of a human agency, almost like a government agency that’s being manipulated to foster certain programs and certain agenda. “These are human inventions, human ideologies that are being pushed and the Church is being used,” Cardinal Burke added. The cardinal warned that the Church is being “used” to push an ideological agenda.
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And the Code of Canon Law provides the appropriate sanctions.” “I mean, these are sins against Christ himself and, obviously then, of the most serious nature.
“Whether it’s a departure, heretical teaching and denial of one of the doctrines of the faith, or apostasy in the sense of simply walking away from Christ and from his teaching in the Church to embrace some other form of religion, these are crimes,” Cardinal Burke said. “That is very sad that a majority of bishops voted explicitly against the revealed doctrine, and the revealed faith of the Catholic Church and of all our Christian thinking, against the Bible, the word of God in the Holy Scripture and in the apostolic tradition and in the defined doctrine of the Catholic Church,” the cardinal added.
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“There must be a trial and they must be sentenced and they must be removed from their office if they are not converting themselves and they are not accepting the Catholic doctrine,” Cardinal Müller told Arroyo during the interview. German Cardinal Gerhard Müller and American Cardinal Raymond Burke rebuked the German bishops and called on them to be sanctioned in an interview on EWTN’s The World Over with Raymond Arroyo, which aired on Thursday night, March 16. A synod of German bishops overwhelmingly approved Church blessings of same-sex unions and unions between divorced and remarried Catholics, but the move has faced harsh criticism from some members of the Catholic hierarchy who have accused the German bishops of abandoning the faith.
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