Cardinal Burke’s Remnant interview

https://akacatholic.com/cardinal-burkes-remnant-interview/ ^ | January 10, 2017 | Louie Verrecchio

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Before you get too excited, however, recall that Cardinal Burke is among the disoriented; a man conflicted, and ultimately (as we will see) a man of the Council.

When asked what the promised “formal act of correction” might look like, Burke provided an underwhelming response:

Well, it doesn’t look too much differently than the dubia. In other words, the truths that seem to be called into question by AL would simply be placed alongside what the Church has always taught and practiced and annunciated in the official teaching of the Church. And in this way these errors would be corrected. Does that make sense to you?

Micheal replied, “Yes, absolutely,” but to me, it makes no sense at all.

If the bitter experience of the past five decades has taught us anything, it’s that simply juxtaposing truth alongside error without plainly condemning the latter (in this case, Amoris Laetitia) and its purveyors (Francis chief among them) is a fool’s errand.

The reason Cardinal Burke is unable (or unwilling) to recognize as much is simple, as I just stated; he is a man of the Council – that regrettable event wherein this dereliction of Apostolic duty was given papal approbation; only to infect the entire sacred hierarchy even to this very day.

As readers of this space are all-too-well-aware, the errors of the Second Vatican Council lie at the very heart of the present crisis; i.e., Amoris Laetitia is cut entirely from conciliar cloth.

Michael had a magnificent opportunity to invite Cardinal Burke to connect the dots. He asked:

I’m wondering, is there any concern in your mind that what we’re seeing now is in fact a following of some sort of continuum of that spirit of Vatican II that has less to do with Francis and more to do with a new orientation of the Catholic Church altogether.

Not to be unfairly critical (I have no idea how much time Michael had to prepare for the interview, or whether or not this question was perhaps asked spontaneously), but I have to say that I was disappointed to see it framed in reference to the “spirit of Vatican II.”

Michael knows as well as anyone that what we’re seeing now is in fact a continuum of the very text of Vatican II – not just an amorphous “spirit” unrelated to the Council’s errors.

In any case, Cardinal Burke immediately seized upon the implication, saying:

That is a legitimate concern. And whenever I hear this language—the ‘spirit of the Vatican II’—I am immediately alerted because there’s no question, it’s been demonstrated and can be demonstrated more that a lot of what happened in the Church after the Second Vatican Council, which invoked the Second Vatican Council, had nothing to do with what the Council Fathers taught. We saw it in the devastation of the Sacred Liturgy and in other aspects, as well. So I think that what we must do is return to the constant teaching of the Church as it’s expressed in the Second Vatican Council, but in all of the ecumenical councils and in all of the authentic teachings of the Church down the centuries.

So there you have it; according to Cardinal Burke, the Second Vatican Council isn’t part of the problem, it’s part of the solution, because, after all, it offers the constant teaching of the Church!

Has it never occurred to His Eminence that the documents of the Council – by turning on its head the constant teaching of the Church on such matters as religious liberty, ecumenism, the Church’s relationship with the Jews, etc. – actually set the stage for Amoris Laetitia to do the same with regard to adultery, marriage and family, Holy Communion, and even the very concept of mortal sin itself?

Does he not realize that the “confusion” that he lays at the feet of Amoris Laetitia pales in comparison to the utter devastation that has been wrought on the entire Church over the last 50-plus years thanks to the Council?

Apparently not.

In any case, Burke’s characterization of the Council – one that contradicts everything that the “traditionalist” (aka Catholic) so-called “movement” stands for – went unchallenged and the interview effectively came to a close.

Like I said, the entire thing is a mixed bag that includes some excellent questions, telling answers, and missed opportunities.

Taken as a whole, it would seem to suggest – to the extent that Burke is representative of the cream of the cardinalatial crop (such as it is) – that it is very unlikely that any concrete steps will be taken toward ridding the Church of the scourge known as Francis.

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