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To: nanetteclaret
Well, where to begin with a heretic like Burke? Quite aside from inviting child molester priests into his diocese and turning them loose on the public, for which there is no canonical prohibition that I am aware of but civil law can deal with that(maybe he and Bernie Laqw would like to move back here), for starters take a look at Canon 14 of the Apostolic Canons. Then there is Canon VIII of Nicea, Canon II of the Second Ecumenical Council, Canon V of the Fourth Ecumenical Council. There are other earlier ones.

Burke is also noted for his extravagance in dress. This violates Canon XVI of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, though to be fair, a number of Orthodox bishops are guilty of this one. I can likely find other disciplinary canons even from the West, but I have a meeting to go to. Were I a Latin, I'd pick another hill to die on in my fight with the Pope.

50 posted on 11/17/2014 3:50:06 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Kolokotronis

In the first place, all of your canon references back up your complaint that Cardinal Burke went to another diocese and did something. When was this and where was it? Why did he go? What did he do? If you are saying that he was meddling in another bishop’s diocese, I absolutely do not believe it. I have a letter from him in which he answers a question I asked of him, and he told me I would have to ask my own bishop as he did not have jurisdiction. As for him “wearing elaborate clothing,” he wears the vestments and cassock of the clergy pre-Vatican II. Judas Iscariot complained about Christ being annointed with costly ointments, so it isn’t surprising that a prelate who is standing up for traditional Church teaching is being attacked for what he wears.

I think you ought to go back and read the definition of calumny and detraction. I don’t know which this is, but I think it is one ir the other since you cannot seem to supply any factual evidence.


51 posted on 11/17/2014 9:13:11 PM PST by nanetteclaret (Unreconstructed "Elderly Kooky Type" Catholic Texan)
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