Cardinal Raymond Burke has urged Pope Francis to take the issues of Communion for the divorced and remarried, cohabitation and same-sex marriage “off the table” for next year’s Synod of Bishops.continue at UK Catholic Herald
Addressing more than 300 delegates at a family and marriage conference, organised by Catholic Voice, in Limerick on November 15, the American cardinal said these issues had distracted the work of the synod in its first session in October.
Warning that Satan was sowing confusion and error about matrimony, the cardinal patron of the Knights of Malta said, “Even within the church there are those who would obscure the truth of the indissolubility of marriage in the name of mercy.”
The 66-year-old former archbishop of St Louis instead recommended that next year’s synod devote itself to promoting the church’s teaching on marriage.
Cardinal Burke also ruled out any easing of the restriction on Communion for those divorced and remarried without an annulment of their original marriage.
“I fail to be able to comprehend how — if marriage is indissoluble and someone is living in a state contradicting this indissolubility of marriage — the person can be admitted to holy Communion,” he said.
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If Cdl Burke doesn't get enough attention with his dramatic vestments and entourage, he'll go to the ends of the earth saying inflamatory things.
Why are you assuming that is his intent. What is he wrong about?
I just noticed you posted on this - I did too. Excellent commentary from the Cardinal. I keep saying - he knows what he is talking about. God bless him.
Cardinal Burke's full talk is available on CD from Catholic Voice - telephone 00353 598627268
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