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ABC Falsely Reports Pope Removed “Outspoken Critic of Abortion” From Vatican Court
Life News ^ | Matthew Balan

Posted on 12/17/2013 4:18:33 PM PST by Morgana

Tuesday’s Good Morning America simply didn’t have its facts straight in their rush to portray Pope Francis as a crypto-liberal.

Amy Robach hyped that the pontiff “removed an outspoken critic of abortion and same-sex marriage from a powerful post within the Church. Conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke…was head of the Vatican’s highest court.” Robach then asserted that “this move is seen as reinforcing the Pope’s vision for a more inclusive church.”

However, Cardinal Burke is still the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura – the equivalent of the Supreme Court for the Catholic Church. The Pope actually declined to renew the Wisconsin native’s membership on a different consultative body at the Vatican – the Congregation for Bishops. [MP3 audio available here; video below the jump]

Robach’s news brief is in the same vein as Time magazine’s recent Person of the Year cover story about the Bishop of the Rome, where writers Howard Chua-Eoan and Elizabeth Dias. Chua-Eoan and Dias contended that supposedly, “in a matter of months, Francis has elevated the healing mission of the church…above the doctrinal police work so important to his recent predecessors.”

CBS This Morning – one of Good Morning America’s Big Three competitors – has also given wild, left-leaning spin about the pontiff. Correspondent Charlie D’Agata trumpeted that Francis was “one of the most progressive popes in modern times” during a September 13, 2013 report. Over a month earlier, his colleague Dean Reynolds bizarrely wondered if the Pope was “breaking with the Vatican” due to his widely-misrepresented “who am I to judge?” reply about people with homosexual attractions.

In a Monday post, Thomas Peters of CatholicVote.org’s “American Papist” blog took aim at the “hyperventilating speculation” about Pope Francis’ move with regard to Cardinal Burke. ABC’s misleading reporting about the change is just the latest example of what Peters called attention to.

The transcript of Amy Robach’s news brief from Tuesday’s Good Morning America on ABC:

AMY ROBACH: Well, a new shakeup at the Vatican – Pope Francis has removed an outspoken critic of abortion and same-sex marriage from a powerful post within the Church. Conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former archbishop of St. Louis, was head of the Vatican’s highest court. Well, this move is seen as reinforcing the Pope’s vision for a more inclusive church. Today, he spent his 77th birthday visiting with the homeless.


TOPICS: Catholic
KEYWORDS: cardinalburke; catholic; francis; pope; popefrancis; prolife; vatican
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1 posted on 12/17/2013 4:18:33 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana
I'm not a Catholic, but thinking about the headline makes me want to ask, "So what if he did?" It's a Vatican council, is it not? And, the Pope is the big-guy over the Vatican. I'm not familiar with Vatican bylaws and rules, but I'm confident there is nothing in there about 'Good Morning America,' having a vote in the goings. Maybe the GMA team should drink a nice Italian roast blend of mind-your-own-prissy-business.

Never mind that the report sounds like a bucket of crap and may simply not be true.
2 posted on 12/17/2013 4:28:29 PM PST by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: Morgana
Yeah, the hypeventilating left, systematically misrepresenting Pope Francis' words, deeds and intentions --- and aided and abetted by their dde facto allies, the hyperventilating right.
3 posted on 12/17/2013 4:29:26 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him who is the Head, into Christ.")
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To: Morgana

More commie puke propaganda.


4 posted on 12/17/2013 4:47:37 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Morgana

So the pope is a Liberal?


6 posted on 12/17/2013 4:59:06 PM PST by Revel
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To: Morgana

Saddam has simply "not been renewed" as leader of our country.

7 posted on 12/17/2013 5:00:00 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: Morgana
Pretty much expected from ABC.

Pat Caddell called it. Do you believe it yet?

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an “enemy of the people” Sept. 29, 2012(video 26:00)

Emotional Pat Caddell on the MSM ignoring Benghazi: “These people have no honor!” Oct. 27, 2012 (video at link 4:06)

The MSM are enemies of the people!

8 posted on 12/17/2013 5:05:38 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Morgana
pontiff “removed an outspoken critic of abortion and same-sex marriage from a powerful post within the Church..."

The statement above is true and is correct reporting.

9 posted on 12/17/2013 5:10:39 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: steve86

But it says he WAS head of the Vatican’s highest court. That is false. The reporting is false.


10 posted on 12/17/2013 5:25:34 PM PST by impimp
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To: Morgana

ABC is wrong again......why do people even bother to read or listen to the lamestream media?


11 posted on 12/17/2013 5:35:41 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Morgana
Pure wordplay on Life News' part. The pope did remove Cardinal Burke from the Congregation for Bishops which oversees the process for the selection of bishops in Europe, the Americas and Oceania and the pope did elevate Cardinal Wuerl to the same Council.

The author should be ashamed of his biased journalism for not even mentioning Donna Wuerl.

12 posted on 12/17/2013 5:58:09 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: Salvation

Is Rorate Caeli wrong? Is Vatican Insider wrong? Is LifeSite News wrong? Is Fr Z wrong?


13 posted on 12/17/2013 6:04:19 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: Morgana; Salvation
American Catholic bishops and their failure to excommunicate

Donna Wuerl is the Queen of the above Bishops and Pope Francis personally picked him to help vet future bishops.

Wuerl is diametrically opposed to Cardianl Burke in terms of holding up Canon law. I think this Pope is also adverse to upholding Canon law.

14 posted on 12/17/2013 6:22:30 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: AD from SpringBay

AS usual, they got their facts wrong. Cardinal Burke remains head of the highest court and hold numerous other positions The pope reduced the size of an advisory council, and installed the American who is in charge of the new Anglican “use” project in the USA.


15 posted on 12/17/2013 6:36:56 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: RobbyS
Cardinal Burke remains head of the highest court and hold numerous other positions.

How much you want to be he loses them all after the next Gang of Eight meeting?

16 posted on 12/17/2013 6:51:40 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

I doubt it That’s not how things happen in the Vatican house of mirrors.


17 posted on 12/17/2013 6:58:09 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Dear Mrs. Don-o,

The right is not hyperventilating to note that three prelates who insist on orthodoxy in action as well as words were removed from the Congregation for Bishops while Wuerl was added.

My parish is in the Archdiocese of Washington. Having seen him up close and personal, I can tell you, he talks a good game, but many of his actions (and failures to act) undermine orthodoxy in the Church.

He makes Cardinal McCarrick look like a saint.


sitetest

18 posted on 12/17/2013 6:58:39 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: RobbyS

It’s been happening since his election. He’s on a mission to “make a mess” out there! Look at Fr. Volpi! Look at Monsignor Battista Ricca!

Pope Benedict lamented the “filth” in the Church. Pope Francis embraces it!


19 posted on 12/17/2013 7:02:08 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: Morgana

Does anyone actually think Pope Francis would hold it against a Bishop for denying Communion to pro-abort politicians?

Knee-jerk reactions drive me nuts.


20 posted on 12/17/2013 9:35:32 PM PST by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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