Posted on 11/09/2014 8:12:48 AM PST by Gamecock
VATICAN CITY, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- After speaking out against statements of Pope Francis that appear to be very lenient toward homosexuals in the church, Cardinal Raymond Burke has been removed from his position as leader of the Vatican's highest court.
The pope has worked on a draft of the synod of bishops that included welcoming homosexual people into the Catholic church, to some degree. That part did not make it to the final draft, but it did stir things up in the church.
Around this time, Cardinal Raymond Burke told Buzzfeed "the pope is not free to change the church's teachings with regard to the immorality of homosexual acts or the insolubility of marriage or any other truth of the faith."
Now, according to a press bulletin from the Vatican, the cardinal will be leaving his highly sought after position as a leader of the high court to take on a lower position, considered to be ceremonial, as chaplain of the Knights of Malta charity order.
Burke had claimed last month such an event would occur, but this is the first time the Vatican has officially announced it.
Like a liberal stacking the deck of the Supreme Court, except the President can’t fire a justice.
Give Frank a couple years and Rome will have openly gay priests.
Oh, no no no. The Catholic horde will show up telling us he’s misunderstood and mistranslated.
Francis is light in the loafers. He’s also light in the noggin. He’s the theological equivalent of having Joel Osteen become Pope...
Time to demote the Pope.
Those defenses are becoming more scarce as time goes by. What was obvious to some at first is becoming apparent to many now.
I believe that is called a "schism" and the last one didn't turn out very well. Unfortunately Benedict laid the ground work for it when he resigned.
Schism
You beat me to it.
That’s the first thing I thought of and was going to post it.
Well, seems like Pope “I cannot judge anyone” makes exceptions for any who question him.
Frances’ mistake was demoting Burke, and he did it before Burke started talking. Burke is now free to speak his mind, and Frances can do nothing about it.
Francis is light in the loafers. He’s also light in the noggin. He’s the theological equivalent of having Joel Osteen become Pope...
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Great post!!
I’m not sure I’m following why this now makes him “free to talk”.
Frances can’t do anything more to him, and anything he says he can preface with “I would never contradict anything the Holy Father says...” like he has been doing.
I’d want to see pope-loving Catholics defend this one.
Too funny, because it's so accurate a description.
St. Catherine of Siena, "We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence."
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