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When considering the suppression of parishes or the closing of church buildings, bishops should hew closely to canon law not simply because it’s a legal requirement of the church, Cardinal Raymond L. Burke said, but because it helps foster unity. In a May 7 interview with the Catholic Review, the prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, the Vatican’s highest court, said following proper procedures helps ensure legitimate decisions. “When we don’t follow the requirements of the law, then people rightly claim that they’ve been aggrieved by this,” said Cardinal Burke, who was a featured speaker at the...

I refuse to address anyone who comes into New York to destroy churches as “Cardinal” or “Your Eminence.” I grew up in Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish. There I went to grammar school, received my sacraments, arranged my mother’s funeral, and for nine years worked as secretary in the parish office, where I also suffered a serious injury. Your lies and those of your PR man Joe Zwilling are all over the place, and I’m fed up with them.