[ebb tide]

And Burke undoubtedly took some heat.

In fact, he admitted as much when EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo asked him about it in a December 2013 interview. “I’ve received very severe criticism,” Burke said. “But…the [canonical] discipline itself is a consistent discipline from the time of St. Paul, from the very first years of the Church, and it makes perfect sense.” Whether by coincidence or not, five days after the interview aired, Pope Francis’s decision to replace Cardinal Burke with Cardinal Wuerl on the Congregation for Bishops was made public by the Vatican.

[JPX2011]

Wuerl is 73. Two more years before retirement submission. I’m sure Pope Francis will keep him on to continue his “pastoral” ministry.

[Alex Murphy]

“I’ve received very severe criticism,” Burke said. “But…the [canonical] discipline itself is a consistent discipline from the time of St. Paul, from the very first years of the Church, and it makes perfect sense.” Whether by coincidence or not, five days after the interview aired, Pope Francis’s decision to replace Cardinal Burke with Cardinal Wuerl on the Congregation for Bishops was made public by the Vatican.

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