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Cardinal Raymond Burke strongly defended his criticism of the “Kasper proposal,” and said it was “outrageous” for Cardinal Walter Kasper to suggest that such criticism was actually aimed at Pope Francis, during a teleconference with reporters on September 30. “I find it amazing that the cardinal [Kasper] claims that he speaks for the Pope,” Cardinal Burke said. “The Pope doesn’t have laryngitis.”

And now that he's been exiled, false collegiality is dropped - which IMO is what Kasper had identified as the issue the papacy had Burke in the first place:

....Regarding the upcoming publication of the five cardinals' book right before the synod: "Yes it is a problem. I don't remember a similar situation, in which in such organized manner five cardinals would write such a book. That's the way politicians operate, but in the Church we should not behave like that.”
-- from the thread Interview excerpts: Cardinal Kasper responds

4 posted on 10/01/2014 9:21:09 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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What exactly was the issue? Kasper has been setting himself out as the Pope’s spokesman since the beginning, and the five cardinals wrote their book IN RESPONSE to Kasper, and did not get together in advance and plan this “attack.”

One thing you have to bear in mind is that the Pope isn’t really a regular Latin American: he’s an Argentinian, a group where many of them actually boast of having no Spanish blood, because they are descended from the Italians, English and Germans who populated that area. They probably identify as Italians more than anything else, and they are very much in awe of the Germans (Italians always are). Even though he’s too old to vote and is theoretically retired, Kasper is very aggressive and he’s using the Pope’s anti-intellectual, populist and Argentinian strain to his best advantage.


5 posted on 10/01/2014 9:31:05 AM PDT by livius
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“And now that he’s been exiled, false collegiality is dropped”

What false collegiality? Burke has always been this way.


8 posted on 10/01/2014 9:40:25 AM PDT by vladimir998
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