Archbishop Burke never tried to shake down St. Stan’s and even told them SPECIFICALLY their money would stay their money. The parish was operating against canon law, now it is simply schismatic. Case closed.
Oh their assets would stay there, in the hands of a priest appointed by Burke himself. While that is the canonical norm, no Archbishop since Ritter has pressed St. Stanislaus Kostka on the issue. Burke’s reorganization plan for the churches in south city, the permanent transferrence of the Polish mission from St. Stanislaus to St. Agatha, and the 8 acres and $9 million in property in dispute lead me to believe, and I could be entirely wrong about it, that Raymond Burke’s motives are not entirely based in enforcing ecclesiastical orthodoxy.