Posted on 11/29/2023 8:42:45 AM PST by DFG
Pope Francis has kicked conservative US Cardinal Raymond Burke out of his Vatican apartment and stripped him of his salary after he criticized the pontiff's pro-LGBT stance.
Francis has decided to punish Burke by revoking his right to a subsidized Vatican apartment and salary in the second such radical action against an American prelate this month, according to two sources.
It is understood Francis told a meeting of the heads of Vatican offices last week that he was moving against Burke because he was a source of 'disunity' in the church, said one of the participants at the November 20 meeting.
Burke's privileges of having a subsidized Vatican apartment and salary as a retired cardinal have been removed because he was using the benefits against the church, said another person who was subsequently briefed on the pope´s measures.
Both insiders spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to reveal the details.
Burke has not received any notification of measures being taken, his secretary said in a text message Tuesday to The Associated Press.
Burke, a 75-year-old canon lawyer whom Francis had fired as the Vatican's high court justice in 2014, has become one of the most outspoken critics of the pope, his outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics and his reform project to make the church more responsive to the needs of ordinary faithful.
Twice, Burke has joined other conservative cardinals in issuing formal questions to the pontiff, known as 'dubia,' asking him to clarify questions of doctrine that upset conservatives and traditionalists.
In the first, they asked Francis to clarify his outreach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, and Francis never replied. In the second, they asked whether same-sex couples could receive church blessings - and received a conditional maybe in response.
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The HERETIC has a small brain and a black, jealous heart.
You are a Catholic and you are letting your feelings about PRIESTS keep your soul from eternal salvation. Find a Good, HOLY Priest and go to Mass at His Church......you will be a much happier person.
BOOM! Cancelled.
I’m a very happy person. People comment all the time that I’m always in a good mood. Felt terrible after my son died, but those feelings come and go.
There are other churches, you know.
There are other churches, BUT the Catholic Church is THE ONE! You can’t get The Body of Christ, HOLY COMMUNION, anywhere else, and I think you know it.
Sorry about your son’s death.
Pelosi should prepare articles of impeachment. LOL
Leave it to a lib to assume his very narrowly limited infallibility actually is a universal trait.
No free speech in the CCC (communist catholic church).
Surprised he didn’t accuse the cardinal of being a white supremacist.
Nope. His infallibility is severely limited to teachings of faith or morals, speaking ex cathedra on doctrine “initially given to the apostolic Church and handed down in Scripture and tradition” and only under certain conditions. And it has been used extremely sparingly through history.
Leave it to a liberal to assume an infinite expansion of limited power.
He’s no Pope, he’s a commie dictator.
Well since homosexuality is definitely a doctrinal issue as it is most definitely a sin I guess catholics now must correct God and tell Him it is no longer a sin.
Afterall the pope has just taken a stance on this doctrinal issue and the pope is infallible doctrinally.
I would consider punishing those who condem immoral activities such as homosexuality a form of speaking on morals. Thus by your post catholics must accept his stance as infallible.
The great sin appears to be condemning homosexuality as opposed to practicing it according to the pope. Sounds like a moral issue to me.
Well, I’m sure you have some very fine qualities. Cognitive skills are not among them.
Nope. His infallibility is severely limited to teachings of faith or morals
Are you saying Homosexuality is not a moral issue or that the current Pope is in line with God on the issue?
You can’t have it both ways.
Instead of a baseless assertion and ad hominems try defending your statement. Where exactly am I wrong? Is homosexuality not a moral issue, or are your debate skills so weak that is all you have to say?
Francis is not speaking Ex-Cathedra on the subject when he speaks his own opinion. Catholics are under no obligation to believe every utterance from his mouth, or from anybody else’s save Christ alone.
But teachings of the magisterium of the Church are infallible, and have always held tha homosexuality is sin.
Pope Stalin I
Because Peter never claimed to be the Vicar of Christ, as these Papists now believe.
Pope Proud Sexual Weirdo. Enabler..
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