TradCatKnight: His Eminence Raymond Burke: A cardinal conflicted
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His Eminence Raymond Burke: A cardinal conflicted
His Eminence Raymond Burke: A cardinal conflicted
His Eminence Raymond Leo Burke, God love him, seems to genuinely want to do the right thing, but he has a serious problem; he is a cardinal conflicted.
Claiming citizenship in two incompatible worlds, he appears trapped and torn between two irreconcilable forces:
On the one hand, he is deeply devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass, the immutable doctrines of the Faith as taught throughout the centuries, and the Blessed Virgin Mother.
On the other, he is blindly willing to assume the inherent goodness of the Novus Ordo Missae, the wisdom of the Second Vatican Council, and the veracity of Rome’s official position on Our Lady of Fatima.
In other words, he is the poster prelate of disoriented neo-conservative Catholicism; a walking contradiction.
As such, when it comes to Amoris Laetitia, one can hardly be surprised to notice that, in spite of his good intentions, Cardinal Burke is beginning to resemble a drunken cowboy engaged in a gun fight with some very bad men in a crowded saloon; often dangerously way off target, but also occasionally (even if perhaps inadvertently) squarely hitting the mark as well.
In his latest interview (as of this writing, anyway), this one with the Italian publication, La Verità, (complete translation courtesy of Andrew Guernsey available HERE), Cardinal Burke made some interesting claims; the first to jump out being found in the headline:
There is no ultimatum to the Pope, but we must go forward: the faith is in danger
Just as one may have expected, this is about half-right.
First, let’s be clear: The dubia most certainly is an “ultimatum;” a proposal that essentially demands, “Do this, or else suffer the consequences.”
Cardinal Burke has made it clear on a number of occasions that a failure on the part of Francis to directly answer the dubia will result in “an act of formal correction.”
His deliberate and repeated use of the word “formal” strikes me as one of those “on target” moments; even if he doesn’t intend it as such.
I mean, isn’t it just common sense that “formal” corrections are reserved for “formal” errors (more properly in the present case, heresies) as opposed to those that are simply “material” in nature?
In any event, Cardinal Burke has never shied away from this threat.
In fact, in the La Verità interview, he cited Aquinas while once again saying, “In this case [of a pope falling into error, with the clear implication being that this is what he believes Francis has done], a correction must be made.”
As for the faith being in danger, well, duh!
This statement was offered in direct opposition to claims recently made by Cardinal Gerhard Muller in an interview that was broadcast on Italian television. (Is there anyone in Rome able to resist the seductive allure of the media?)
Specifically, Muller said that a correction of Francis isn’t warranted because “there is no danger to the faith.”
Since then, the indefatigable Edward Pentin of National Catholic Register reported:
One informed official recently told the Register that a CDF committee that reviewed a draft of Amoris Laetitia raised “similar” dubia to those of the four cardinals. Those dubia formed part of the CDF’s 20 pages of corrections, first reported by Jean-Marie Genois in Le Figaro on April 7, the eve of the publication of the document.
Another senior official went further, revealing to the Register last week that Cardinal Müller had told him personally that the CDF “had submitted many, many corrections, and not one of the corrections was accepted”. He added that what the cardinal states in the interview “is exactly the contradictory of everything which he has said to me on the matter until now” and he had the “impression of someone who was not speaking for himself but repeating what someone else had told him to say.”
With all of this in mind, it seems reasonable to suspect that Cardinal Muller’s about face is the result having been threatened to “toe the company line, or else” (speaking of ultimatums).
Given that the wolves somehow managed to convince Benedict XVI, not only to flee, but to offer public support for the Argentinian madman who daily goes about attacking the very doctrines and liturgical traditions he once championed, one can hardly be shocked.
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