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You'll not find me a defender of Kasper and his coterie --- Marx, Baldisseri, Forte --- all followers of Hans Kung and purveyors of his errors.

That "coterie" of heterodox destroyers was hand-picked by Pope Francis to surround his throne. He personally assembled the unholy alliance, which he has since deployed to undermine the perennial teachings of the Church, allowing his mouthpieces to promote heterodoxy in his name without contradiction. Yet we should assume that the demotion and banishment of Burke is somehow intended to accomplish the exact opposite? Where is the logic in that theory?

Burke proclaims the Gospel in season and out of season.

Kasper and the admirers of his "serene theology" scheme to lead us away from the narrow gate by launching a direct attack on the 6th commandment.

"Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit."

The probability of this may well be disputed, but I think it is possible that Pope Francis is giving his hand-picked "Class of '68" guys enough rope to hang themselves. Kasper, it seems, has been bolder and bolder in proclaiming his heterodox ideology, provoking more and more concern from the more orthodox bishops --- even a hefty segment of the 200+ synod bishops, all of whom were ---as you say --- hand-picked.

I think Kasper is digging his grave with his mouth. The Africans, the Poles, many of the other bishops have gotten the message, now, that they have to organize to expose and defeat this guy. And when I say "expose" --- he is exposing himself.

My husband and I once knew a canny real estate investor whose business motto was, "Don't talk too much: let the other guy talk too much." That could be (I don't say "is," but "could be") Pope Francis' overall strategy with his KasperKungs.

That's why I think Pope Francis' parallel appeal to the upcoming conference on Man-and-Woman Complementarity as the basis of marriage is extremely interesting.

If I may quote myself at that site:

Set up by Müller of CDF, trumpeted by three promotional videos, live-streamed over the Internet, focusing on the thought of St. John Paul II (Theology of the Family), welcoming Evangelical and other non-Catholic leaders who had signed a petition asking Pope Francis to strengthen the Church's traditional affirmation of man-woman marriage and rejection of non-marital unions.
To be addressed by Müller, Koch, Tauran, Paglia, and Chaput.
These people are not being silenced. They are being showcased.
And they are being welcomed at their first morning session by Pope Francis.
I must say this is getting curiouser and curiouser.