Well a fool of a pope vetted it before it was posted on the Vatican website; and it was up for quite a while.
Don’t you think you’re carrying the hermeneutic of continuity to an extreme? The Catholic Church was governed by Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict for over 34 years. Now Francis comes in and announces he plans to “change” that Church; “to make a mess”.
Cardinal Kasper could also exclaim, “I’m a son of the Church!” That doesn’t mean he is one.
Nancy Pelosi has insisted she’s a “good Catholic”. Cardinal Burke thought otherwise:
“Certainly this is a case when Canon 915 must be applied,” Burke in a Sept. 5 interview with The Wanderer, a national Catholic weekly, CNS News reported Monday. “This (Pelosi) is a person who obstinately, after repeated admonitions, persists in a grave sin — cooperating with the crime of procured abortion — and still professes to be a devout Catholic.”
We all know what Francis thinks of Cardinal Burke, don’t we?
Pope Benedict wanted to "change things" too (unspecified.) I am assuming he wanted to change the clubby clericalism and curia cronyism (Vatican Bank, fugitive sex offenders, Lavender Mafia and so forth.) "Change" doesn't necessarily mean "I am repudiating my immediate predecessor." Sometimes "cahnge" means "change the same things my predecessors were trying to change." And Francis did specify, in so many words, the fact that the specifically Lavender Mafia should not be tolerated.
That's part of the paragraph that the media never, never, never sees fit to quote.
As for Nancy Pelosi, she needs to be excommunicated in the full, Gothic-lettering-and-gold-leaf, "Bell, Book and Candle" style.
As for what Pope Francis thinks of Raymond Burke: no, we don't know what he's thinking. He gave him a reassignment after his six years at the Signatura, which was fully expected. And his new assignment is one that positioned him to land solidly on his feet. He now has no immediate ecclesiastic superior --- in other words, he doesn't have to run anybody else's errands. He is surrounded by an enthusiastic affinity group of wealthy and influential supporters. They already comprise a Christifideles Brigade, and he's been installed at the head of it.
Burke is now free to write for the popular as well as the academic press in any language, speak in London, celebrate the TLM in Austria, organize in Perth, agitate in Lisbon, publish in Navarre, address conferences in Lagos and Capetown, pray, work, and influence exactly as he is led by the Spirit to do so, and has been richly endowed with all the practical, temporal resources he would need to do just that.
I hardly think Francis is so stupid that he wouldn't realize that. So it falls within either Francis' positive or his permissive will.
BTW, Cardinal Burke has said The Pope has spoken out unambiguously on abortion, contraception, marriage and that he would "Never oppose the Successor of Peter."
So what do you think of Cardinal Burke? A patsy? A pollyanna? A fool?