My wife and I sat at Mass one Christmas season at St. Peter’s Church in St. Charles, Missouri. The celebrant read a letter from the local archbishop. As he did, a lady sitting near us shook her head violently. It was only a Christmas greeting, but it brought this woman to public disapproval.continue at The Catholic Thing
The letter was from the then Archbishop of St. Louis, Raymond Burke, now Cardinal Burke and head of the Apostolic Signatura, the supreme court of the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Burke had a rocky time in St. Louis. When it was announced he was leaving St. Louis, dissenting Catholics chortled at what they thought was his comeuppance – though the chortling turned to sorrow and even anger when his promotion to the Signatura was subsequently announced.
In his short time in St. Louis, Burke faced what all bishops have faced in recent years. He closed schools and combined parishes. Contracepting Catholics always blame the bishop, of course, when there are not enough Catholics to keep schools and parishes open.
He also had to pay from Church coffers for the sometimes criminal sexual buccaneering of homosexual priests. But the thing that seemed most to rile at least some St. Louisans was his dispute with a Polish Catholic Church.
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While I've shared this before that I think I would take Ranjith over Burke if someone actually asked me, I would jump for joy if it was Cardinal Burke.
Hi Matt! I did not want to say it to loud for fear of giving our spiritual father another great cross but the idea was out there for a while already! Taylor Marshall on March 4th wrote in his blog 10 good reasons Cardinal Burke will be the next pope! I think Cardinal Burke would have the gifts from the Holy spirit to clean House in the curia but we would have to share him with the rest of the church! Not bad if the Cardinal's discern it is the will of the Holy Spirit! He will benefit all of us then to bring reform to the curia and follow Benedict XVI's lead to a return to sanity in the Sacred Liturgy. How he will need divine assistance and our prayers and sacrifices to carry this weight of the whole fragmented church on his shoulders! I don't pray for this for him but will support him with prayer to fulfill God's Call if elected. Sad for us a blessing for the church! For article by Taylor Marshall follow link http://bit.ly/W1KPqi Blessed Holy Week and Easter Season to you and yours!
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