Vatican Insider: Conclave update
Two influential members of the Curia gave speeches, in which they gave different perspectives on the unprecedented question of the “Pope Emeritus” title. Never in the history of the Catholic Church did a Pope resign due to old age so no one ever had to ask the question of what title he should be given. The issue was also addressed by the Prefect of the Congregation Marc Ouellet, a papabile and the American Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, Raymond Leo Burke.Vatican Insider: An interview with Mons. Scicluna, the man who for almost a decade now has fought alongside Ratzinger in the battle against the pedophilia
After he was ordained a priest in 1986, he went to study in Rome, where he obtained a degree in Gregorian Canon law having been taught by professor Navarrete (future cardinal), and having had his thesis revised by the American monsignor Leo Burke (also a future cardinal). His superiors noticed him immediately. “They wanted me to stay in Rome, in the Apostolic Signature, but the archbishop called me to Malta, where I taught at the university for five years, I held the role of “defender of the bond” in marriage annulment cases, I worked in the parish”.Vatican Insider: Cardinal Castrillo Hoyos decries liturgical abuses as he celebrates third pontifical
As aptly recalled in Fr. John Zuhlsdor's Blog, a popular website among traditional minded faithful, for the second time this year, and for the third time since Summorum Pontificum came into effect, Pontifical Mass according to the 1962 Missal were publicly celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica.Vatican Insider: +Burke, the great "puppeteer."
The first celebration on October 18, 2009, was occasioned by the Second Symposium commemorating the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum and offered by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, in the Eucharistic Adoration Chapel for the first time after 40 years: in fact the last celebration of such solemn pontifical took place in 1969.
The nomination of Charles Chaput, Native American bishop from Denver, to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia confirms Raymond Leo Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, as Benedict XVI’s top advisor in the United States. One of the first signs of his role as a bridge between the influential United States Conference of Bishops and the pontifical apartment was the appointment of Timothy Michael Dolan as successor to Cardinal Edward Egan in New York. [For those of you who doubt Dolan is a Burke man]In regards to the Coredemptrix dogma - Archbishop Burke in an interview with Inside the Vatican in 2009(VERY good interview):
In responding to a request like this from the Franciscans of the Immaculate, do you have any sympathy with the Kolbean Marian theology which is their charism, and its current manifestation, in pushing for a final Marian dogma of Our Lady as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix?Some thoughts on why Pope Benedict did not make the proclamation.
Burke: I certainly am very sympathetic to the Kolbean theology by which I have been enriched for many years. The first papal ceremony that I ever attended, as a first-year seminarian at the Pontifical North American College, was the beatification of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and I have had the blessing over the years to get to know his writings and to visit the sacred places of his heroic life and death in Poland. I am certainly very steeped in the whole spirituality of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as the way to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is through our union of heart with Mary, and our striving to imitate her, that is, our making our hearts like hers, that she brings us to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
From Wiki: "What else to you expect me to say?"
On January 22, 2008, Burke urged Saint Louis University to take disciplinary action against its head basketball coach, Rick Majerus, after Majerus publicly supported abortion and embryonic stem cell research at a campaign event for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton three days earlier.The American Question
With Saint Louis University being run by the Society of Jesus, Burke responded by saying, "When you take a position in a Catholic university, you don't have to embrace everything the Catholic Church teaches. But you can't make statements which call into question the identity and mission of the Catholic Church." SLU spokesman Jeff Fowler responded to Burke's statement by saying, "Rick's comments were his own personal view. They were made at an event he did not attend as a university representative."
Burke again responded to the controversy aroused by his statements in an interview with the archdiocesan newspaper, The St. Louis Review, on the following February 1. The archbishop said, "It gives scandal to other people, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, if they hear a Catholic give an interview to the media, saying that I am proud to be a Catholic but at the same time I hold these views." When asked about his usually outspoken manner in controversial issues, he responded, "Is there something unusual about a bishop saying that it’s wrong to be in favor of procured abortion? I’m a Roman Catholic priest and bishop. What else would you expect me to say?"
Think there's no chance of an American pope?
I updated my Cardinal Burke tag on older posts if you want to speculate yourself (This is for Terry who loves it when we chant USA!) To be clear though, I'm praying a novena to St. Joseph (at the prompting of Cardinal Dolan) for all the Cardinal. I certainly would not be disappointed if Burke is not elected. The US would lose a cardinal who is very active, supporting many of the faithful. But it's not every day Wisconsin has a home grown cardinal as a real possibility. There's nothing wrong with getting excited about the prospect of an American pope. Conclave time is a time of prayer and excitement and fear and hope. We pray, we trust God, we entrust the Virgin with our needs. But smile, it's awesome to be Catholic!
both images via Orbis
1 comment:
Nice post. However your routine assertions that Burke and Dolan are of the same mind are simply not founded. I sincerely wish I could tell you exactly how and why I know this over a beer Matt, but I cannot.
Dolan had long been touted as the future Archbishop of New York, even before Burke went to Rome. This was years in the making. Chalk his promotion to the extremely powerful influences of Rigali and Harvey, not to Burke. The Vatican Insider passage is a bit off on that claim, to put it mildly.
The two men are friendly, charitable and professional to one another (they are Christians, after all) but there are serious differences that go beyond the "I prefer vanilla and you prefer chocolate". The difference is in leadership. I met Dolan on two occasions and he is warm, gregarious and kind. But let's be honest, he was largely ineffective as Milwaukee's archbishop. Coming on the heels of Weakland's disastrous tenure, tough decisions were not made by Dolan regarding very important things. He was largely incapable of making the tough decisions. I am pretty surprised that this point is not brought up more on your site. Maybe the La Crosse-Milwaukee divide is too far.
I am from the Cream City, extremely well connected (not to sound pretentious), and am well aware of what did and didn't happen here under Dolan's reign. Again, you'll have to trust me (a tall order, I know). I am routinely astonished that Catholics who should know better choose to overlook the Dolan years in Milwaukee. This is not an ad hominem against Dolan. All too often, Dolan defenders work themselves into a tizzy whenever anyone dares to criticize his professional choices.
Look at the facts, not the personality. Look at the record, not the "average Joe" appeal. Look at the results, not the "he's so down to earth!" factor. Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you genuinely want to see a link between the two men because both embody qualities that you admire (orthodoxy and charisma) so you turn a blind eye to glaring disparities.
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