Fr. Altier's oppressor.
No, you're thinking of Archbishop Harry Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Archbishop Burke is from St. Louis.
Archbishop Burke is the one who told pro-abort Catholic politicians that they would be denied communion in the St. Louis archdiocese.
Archbishop Burke, however, has excommunicated the Polish priest, Marek Bozek, for disobeying his bishop and taking a job as priest of a troublesome parish against explicit orders.