PopeWatch: Can’t Take Away His Faith
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Quotations are used in his post.
The Daily Compass?
Is anyone familiar with this site and if so will they state that they are creditable?
My enemy?
He used that exact word?
https://twitter.com/dailycompassbq?lang=en
A “Stricklandazation” of sorts for the Cardinal?
Take away his home and salary?
I’m sorry. Denial in my part is due to a thread of hope. Hope that the powers that be are not as dastardly as depicted…but if it’s his own words then I feel sorry for Himself… since he’s digging his own cold dark grave.
Philip-
Seems legit to me. Guy who wrote the article seems thoughtful and conservative.
Also Italian, which may mean that he has some access to someone at the Vatican, which is not exactly in our neighborhood.
https://newdailycompass.com/en/the-pope-away-with-cardinal-burkes-house-and-salary
Thank you for that TBO.
Time will tell if Francis is unhinged and small enough to actually do this. He’s certainly shown a vindictive, petty side before — just look at how he treated the late Pope Benedict’s secretary Archbishop Ganswein.
Francis’ threat, if it was truly made, could just as easily be directed at any other Cardinal who displeased him; just as his dismissal of Bishop Strickland served as a warning to every other bishop to shut up and toe the Francis Line. Which of course is the point— to make an example of those men in order to threaten the others.
It’s my hope that the Cardinal electors at the next conclave look at Francis’ behavior and resolve to never elect anyone like him again.
As it is, the next time Francis drones on about how humble he is, and how much he respects the collegiality of bishops, I expect every prelate around him to have a hard time restraining laughter.
I seem to recall that when the Cardinal had COVID, he was in Wisconsin. It wouldn’t surprise me to discover that his residence in Rome is unused. He hasn’t presided over the Apostolic Signatura in nine years.
I remember when Cardinal Burke came down with Covid, Art Deco. He’d voiced concerns about the vaccines, which in 2021 got him labeled a “vaccine denier” and a “disinformation spreader” by the media. (Concerns which seem to have been reasonable, from our vantage point in 2023). I have no idea if His Eminence was ever vaccinated or not.
At any rate, when Cardinal Burke was diagnosed and eventually placed on a ventilator, Francis remarked that he could not understand people who were reluctant to take the vaccine. There were even such people in the College of Cardinals, he said, “and one of them, poor man, is very sick now”. Those in the audience noted that Francis was smiling broadly as he said that.
Perhaps Francis wasn’t concern trolling. But if he ever reached out to Cardinal Burke when the man was deathly ill, or offered to say a Mass for him, I don’t recall such a gesture making the news.
Bishop Strickland gone. Now Cardinal Burke is out:
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-cardinal-burke-conservatives-strickland-163f2d3522a80fa5f908421cc812cfc9
Jorge is a very vindicative tyrant. I got nothing good to say about him.
“It wouldn’t surprise me to discover that his residence in Rome is unused.”
Of course I am not privy to Cardinal Burke’s daily schedule, but I receive monthly notifications online to submit intentions for Masses he celebrates, and the locations seem to be mostly in Wisconsin, and only occasionally in Rome.
I do have a positive remark to say about Pope F. His “handling” of those he wishes to punish would serve a good, orthodox Pope well, i.e. in bringing heterodox and immoral prelates to heel (after all the appropriate judicial norms had been observed, of course).
Remember John Paul II’s remark when asked, once, about prelates who defied him? “What can I do?”
Or Benedict XVI’s [supposed] remark to Bishop Fellay on basically the same topic? “My authority ends at that door,” pointing to the entrance to his office at Castel Gandolfo.
I would like to see a Holy Father in the mold of the miniscule but mighty Benedict XV: “The hand that gave the red hat can take it back again!” [reportedly said to the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston when it became known that his brother, a priest, had run off with some woman].
It shouldn’t matter to the good Cardinal if his subsidised residence in Rome was taken away from him by the Pope. It pertains to his vows of poverty and obedience. He doesn’t need multiple residence.
“it pertains to his vows of poverty and obedience”
Cardinal Burke would have taken a vow of poverty only if he belonged to a religious order. Diocesan priests (he was ordained for the Diocese of LaCrosse, Wis.) do not. That said, chances are he hasn’t been using the Rome residence too frequently in recent years.
I stand corrected Elaine.