Posted on 04/11/2018 5:05:57 PM PDT by ebb tide
Cardinal Burke Again Persona Non Grata
Cardinal Raymond Burke, the official Patron of the Order of Malta, has again not been invited to the order's International Lourdes pilgrimage which takes place from May 4 to 8, according to Riposte-Catholique.fr (April 11).
Already last year Cardinal Burke was not invited.
As the order's patron he would have been the one to celebrate the Sunday Mass for the about 8000 pilgrims.
Pope Francis appointed Burke in 2014 as the patron of the order. Only in 2015 and 2016 he was allowed to celebrate the Sunday Mass for the Lourdes pilgrimage.
In January 2017, Francis removed the head of the order, Fra Matthew Festing. Festing was too Catholic for Francis.
And the Dictator Pope has issued orders to tolerate no "rigid" Catholics.
I guess that leaves only the limp-wristed.
This is too bad, and a shabby way to treat Cardinal Burke. Apparently there’s “someone” above him who’s quite vindictive.
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