Cardinal [Burke] Forbidden To Say [old-rite] Mass [in Austria]

Gloria.TV News ^ | 10/30/14

[ebb tide]

Coming Wednesday Cardinal Raymond Burke was supposed to celebrate an old-rite Mass in the Vienna parish church of St. Leopold which belongs to the very rich monastery of Klosterneuburg. But the Mass was cancelled. The provost of Klosterneuburg, Father Bernhard Backovsky has personally forbidden the local pastor to allow the Cardinal to celebrate.

[piusv]

Per Benedict XVI: I am very glad that the Usus antiquus [the traditional Latin Mass] now lives in full peace within the Church

Uh-huh.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for these details.

You know, as head of the Signatura, Burke would be stuck in the daily grind at his desk, churning out legal decisions with 135 footnotes apiece, to be ignored just as the bishops almost universally ignored his ruling on the ineligibility of pro-abortion politicians to receive the Most Blessed Sacrament of Holy Communion.

But now as Cardinal Protector of the Knights of Malta, he's free to travel, speak, educate, organize, fire up the troops. He can travel worldwide, pitch straight to the lower clergy and the laity if he chooses.

In a perhaps ironic consequence, he has been untethered from the chains of his Curial desk. And the Knights of Malta have money: they can supply the airfares and also get his stuff published.

With that --- and the Holy Spirit --- what more could a prophet want?

Burke for Pope. Orate, fratres.

[Mrs. Don-o]

My favorite fantasy.... :o)

[BlackElk]

He certainly was St. John Paul the Great. He excommunicated LeFebvre and the Econe 4 while upholding the actual traditions of Holy Mother the Church. He declared SSPX the schism that it has been since the illicit, rebellious, grossly disobedient consecrations of the Econe 4. He also left the Catholic “Left” in a state of advanced and total depression and despair. He was even able to lead the Muslim nations of the UN into an alliance that successfully resisted a UN Declaration that abortion was a universal human “right.” What’s not to like?

[BlackElk]

The use of Cardinal as though it were a middle name is, I believe, a medievalism of which Catholic Traditionalists are proud. In England, for example, the eldest son of Edward III died of illness in 1366 one year before his father and became the first Prince of Wales NOT to succeed to the throne. His given name was Edward. He is known variously as Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, Edward, Prince of Wales and many other names. Today, he might have been known as Edward Plantagenet.

It is very remotely possible that two men with the surname Burke might simultaneously serve as Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. In the 1950s, two brothers named Cicognani simultaneously served and were known respectively as Amleto Cardinal Cicognani and Gaetano Cardinal Cicognani. Amleto served as Secretary of State and Gaetano served as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (essentially chief justice of the Vatican's supreme court, the office currently held by Raymond Cardinal Burke). Those were and are two of the most important offices in the Vatican.

Personally, of course, I would prefer that after due, ummm inquiry, Pope Leo XIV might order Walter Cardinal Kasper and a number of similar miscreants, burned at the stake. Alas, as Cicero might observe: O Tempora, O Mores! We no longer exact the full measure of justice even at the Vatican.

[BillyBoy]

The excuse I've heard is they use the title in the middle as a "sign of humility", but that makes no sense whatsoever as the format is not used for any other type of clergy in the Catholic Church. Nobody says "Dave Father Smith", "Thomas Bishop Paprocki" or "John Pope Paul". So they're just not as "humble" as Cardinals are?

Since using Cardinal before the first name is also considered "correct" under canon law, frequently written as such, as it follows the format of all other titles in the world, I see no reason why they the Pope can't declare that form is the universal standard and do away with the ridiculous use of "Cardinal" like a middle name.

[BillyBoy]

Either it should be Leo Pope XIV ordering Walter Cardinal Kasper around or Pope Leo XIV ordering Cardinal Walter Kasper around. Then the use of titles would make sense.

[BlackElk]

We have to look here for the priority of substance over style. If Pope Leo XIV orders Walter Cardinal Kasper burned at the stake, it is good. If Leo Pope XIV orders Cardinal Walter Kasper burned at the stake, it is good. Etc. Through all possible forms of their respective names so long as we understand who it is who is ordering whom burnt: Burke does the ordering. Kasper becomes the one burning.

Remember that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, etc., and I know that you are not a small mind.

[BillyBoy]

In my ideal scenario, Pope Leo XIV would spend his first day on the job excommunicating numerous heretics, such as “Father” Michael Pfleger, Nancy Pelosi, etc.

[Dqban22]

Paraphrasing Pope Paul VI, it seems that smoke of Hell have entered the Church when Pope Francis opened the Vatican doors to the Marxist Liberation Theology.

H.H. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: “Cardinal Raymond Burke is one of the great cardinals of the Church.”

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."