Posted on 05/27/2022 6:31:48 PM PDT by marshmallow
According to Cardinal Raymond Burke, Pope Francis must dismiss the German bishops from their position if they do not distance themselves from the errors of the Synodal Path which they initiated in 2019 and which continues to attack Catholic doctrine.
Cardinal Burke does not beat around the bush. Faced with the fact that a certain number of bishops have either come out in favor of changes in the doctrine of the Church – e.g., regarding the evaluation of homosexuality, the celibacy of priests, or the ordination of women – or have not explicitly opposed such proposals within the framework of the Synodal Path, he asks Pope Francis to dismiss them.
The Holy Father “must challenge these bishops and ask them to renounce the heresies and even the positions that run counter to Church discipline,” Burke said in an interview published May 11 by Catholic Action for Faith and Family. “And if they do not renounce their errors and correct themselves, then he would have to remove them from office. This is the situation at which we have arrived.”
“The Roman Pontiff, successor of Peter, is by definition the principle of unity in the Church,” emphasized the cardinal. “It is up to him to correct these bishops. And if they do not accept fraternal correction, if they do not accept his hierarchical correction as bishop of the universal church, then appropriate sanction would have be applied so that the faithful know that these bishops are not leading them in the Catholic faith,” he insisted.
“Unfortunately, the confusion is being generated and impelled by those who are called to be teachers of the faith and shepherds of the flock with clarity and courage,” Cardinal Burke further noted.
According to him, bishops who do not clearly defend Catholic doctrine “abandon the flock and.......
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Cardinal Burke,
It’s been 2075 days (5+ years) since you presented your formal dubia to Pope Francis with the promise of formal correction if he did not address it. Unfortunately, to date, you have not issued the promised correction.
What makes you think he’ll listen to you now?
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