Posted on 12/01/2023 12:00:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Pope Francis is reportedly planning to remove an American conservative cardinal, who has been critical of the Vatican in the past, from his apartment over issues of “disunity,” according to ABC News.
Cardinal Raymond Burke, 75, was removed by the pope as the Vatican’s high court justice in 2014 and has been openly critical of Francis’ statements on LGBTQ issues and reform of the Catholic Church. Francis allegedly held a meeting with other Vatican leaders on Nov. 20 to discuss his plan to remove Burke’s apartment and salary as a retired cardinal because he is a source of “disunity,” according to ABC News, which cited two anonymous sources.
Francis reportedly claimed during the meeting that Burke was using the resources given to him by the Vatican against the church, according to ABC. Burke’s secretary said in a statement to Reuters that the cardinal had not been made aware of this plan by the Vatican.
Burke criticized Francis in 2018 after an Italian outlet quoted him as saying that hell does not exist, saying that the comments leave “priests and faithful scandalized.” In October, Burke, along with several other Catholic leaders, sent a series of questions to Francis demanding that he explain the Church’s position on same-sex marriage and female ministers.
Burke also claimed that Francis’ Synod on Synodality, which addressed LGBTQ inclusion and female ordination, “has the aim of bringing forward an agenda that is more political and human than ecclesial and divine,” according to ABC News.
Burke isn’t the only American conservative catholic leader the pope has punished in recent weeks. Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, was put under investigation by the Vatican in June, reportedly regarding his comments on social media claiming that Francis was “undermining the Deposit of Faith.” The Vatican forcibly removed Strickland from his position earlier this month.
The Vatican and Burke did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
In 1960, Padre Pio said “Satan has been introduced into the bosom of the Church and he will within a very short time come to rule a false church.”
At least he’s not burning them at the stake...
Yet
“Francis allegedly held a meeting with other Vatican leaders on Nov. 20 to discuss his plan to remove Burke’s apartment and salary as a retired cardinal”
How Christian of him.
We’re observing the death of the ‘Roman’ Catholic Church witch today is but a shadow of the greatness it once enjoyed. At that time it was pleasing to the Holy Trinity while today it is Satan’s playground.
The Catholic Church still lives today in the hundreds of chapels across North and South America and in important centers of Europe. Seminaries still graduate and become ordained priests to do God’s work.
Bergoglio and every pope since Vatican II will have much to answer for to God!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Amen to all you said.
If antipope Bergolio keeps this up the American branch of the Catholic Church might just break away from Rome.
Can we get back to having Catholics for popes?
Cardinal Burke gave a life of service to the Vatican and now his pension is gone.
That’s the takeaway here.
Enough talk. Time a schism.
Probably better that he is ousted now by Comrade Pope Francis before his replacement, the False Prophet, who would probably had him crucified.
Anti pope, false prophet. Evil pos that is being led by Satan.
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