Posted on 11/27/2023 8:46:53 AM PST by ebb tide
Pope Francis is reportedly working to evict Cardinal Raymond Burke from his apartment in Rome and remove his salary, according to Vatican sources cited in a new report.
Published in three languages on November 27, the New Daily Compass (NDC) reported that Pope Francis had announced his intention to evict the prominent American cardinal from his lodgings in Rome.
“Cardinal Burke is my enemy, so I am taking away his flat and salary,” the Pope was reported as saying, according to NDC’s Vatican source. The reported comments came as part of the Pope’s meeting with the heads of the Roman curia on November 20.
No specific details of the meeting were released by the Vatican about the event, which itself is a customary, albeit infrequent, occurrence.
The NDC reported that this information had come to them via a “Vatican source” and that it was later corroborated by other sources.
At time of publication, it appears that Cardinal Burke, the former prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, has not been made aware of any reported plans by the Pope. LifeSiteNews inquired with His Eminence about the report, and will update this article upon receipt of a reply.
In late February, Pope Francis laid the groundwork for removing cardinals from Rome, ordering them to pay the standard, very expensive rates on their lodgings in and around the Vatican.
Citing the “growing commitments” of the Holy See to the “universal Church and the needy,” Francis called upon all those affected “to make an extraordinary sacrifice.” He thus revoked the free or reduced rate accommodation offered to the cardinals and upper-level curial officials named in the rescript. The change applied to individuals residing in any property owned by the curia or any entity governed by the Holy See’s statutes outlined in the Council for the Economy.
Pope Francis would be personally responsible for dispensing individuals from the effects of the rescript. That move was widely seen as an exercise of power, and a warning to any cardinals of being effectively made homeless should they earn the displeasure of the Pontiff.
Cardinal Burke has emerged as a key figure for many during the nearly 11 years of Pope Francis’ papacy. He has, particularly notably, signed both the initial dubia on Amoris Laetitia released in 2016, and then the 2023 dubia on issues pertaining to the Synod on Synodality.
Mainstream media and heterodox Catholic outlets have consistently vilified the American cardinal, due to his pronouncement of Catholic teaching which is often placed in juxtaposition with the statements of Pope Francis.
Most recently, Cardinal Burke has continued his prior criticism of the Pope’s multiyear project, the Synod on Synodality, penning a foreword to a book which highlighted dangers in the synod.
READ: Cardinal Burke warns Synod is part of ‘revolution’ to ‘radically’ change the Catholic Church
Cardinal Burke referred to “synodality” as a front for a “revolution” which is working to “radically” alter the Catholic Church in line with a “contemporary ideology” which rejects much of Church teaching.
In November 2014, Pope Francis removed the cardinal from his position as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, in a move widely seen as a punishment for his criticism of elements of Francis’ pontificate.
However, Cardinal Burke has consistently called on Catholics to pray for Pope Francis and equally consistently affirmed he holds Pope Francis to be the pope, in the wake of arguments suggesting that Francis’ election might have been invalid.
He has also repeatedly rejected the claim that he is working against the Pope, or is an “enemy” of Francis, stating that his own interventions are to defend the perennial Catholic teaching rather than to oppose the Pope.
Speaking on the eve of the October Synod session, and just hours after the Synod dubia text was publicly released, Cardinal Burke described the actions of he and his fellow signatories: “First of all, we must publicly reaffirm our faith. In this, Bishops have a duty to confirm their brothers.”
He noted that the dubia, posited widely by media reports as an attack on the Pope, “do not deal with the person of the Holy Father. In fact, by their nature they are an expression of due veneration for the Petrine Office and the Successor of St. Peter.”
READ: Cardinal Burke responds to dubia criticism, warns Synod aims to change Church’s structure
Should the reports prove true, and Burke is forcefully evicted by the Pontiff, it will send a direct message to the entire college of cardinals and the world’s episcopate about the lengths to which the Pope will go against anyone deemed to not be in line with his wishes. The report also comes weeks after the personal removal of Tyler’s Bishop Joseph Strickland by the Pope, in a move which has been described as going against canon law and being due to the fact that Strickland’s teaching the faith was not approved of by Rome.
Concluding the NDC’s report, editor-in-chief Riccardo Cascioli wrote:
And now here we come to the Pope’s announced decision to strike Cardinal Burke directly, taking away his flat and salary, a serious and unprecedented measure, in defiance of every legal and ecclesial principle. One may think that the real purpose is to remove Burke from Rome, weakening the camp of those who resist the revolution in progress, as a Conclave approaches, but it is also a warning to those who work in the Roman Curia. The fact is that the end of this pontificate increasingly resembles in its methods, a South American dictatorship.
Dictator Pope Ping
I remember Bergoglio tsk, tsk-ing “poor fellow” when Burke was seriously ill with covid. Such a freakin’ hypocrite ... and petty SOB.
2 Thessalonians 2 (New International Version)
The Man of Lawlessness
2 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
From what I’ve witnessed, this pope ‘s teachings are anti-Christian.
He definitely fits the description of the Man of Lawlessness. He’s not even trying to hide it anymore.
Jorge is actually an enemy of Christ, in everything he does he pleases the god of this world.
Here was see yet another example of the need for term limits. As time goes on, Francis will certainly become more reckless and more dictatorial.
Francis is 86 years old. Only cardinals under 80 can vote for a new pope. Pope Benedict was 85 when he resigned. It’s a shame that neither age can be used as a mandatory retirement age for a pope.
Yes, that would be quite a change! But so was setting a maximum voting age for cardinals.
Lemme guess...Cardinal Burke sounding a bit too much like John Paul II?
SMALL BRAIN AND HEART.
“Cardinal Burke is my enemy, so I am taking away his flat and salary,” the Pope was reported as saying.
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Bergoglio taking a page out of the O’biden playbook.
November 2018:
This measure was taken last spring; the bishop learned of this extraordinary restrictive measure of his freedom from the nuncio in Kazakhstan, Francis Assisi Chullikatt, in April.
But – another singular element in this story – is that Mons. Schneider had read the provision, issued directly by the Secretary of State, the Card. Pietro Parolin, only verbally. The nuncio gave him nothing in writing, no document on the basis of which the bishop could take any legal initiative, possibly at the Congregation for Bishops, or at the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, which, until the advent of Pope Bergoglio, was the instance at which lay priests and bishops could appeal towards decisions of the authority that they considered unjust.
No motivation was given to Mons. Schneider, according to what is apparent to people close to him, whom we have contacted, to explain this extraordinary request. Every time he plans a trip abroad, he must notify the Nuncio. We do not know whether among the powers of the papal ambassador there is also, possibly, to deny him the authorization of exptrary.
“No specific details of the meeting were released by the Vatican about the event, which itself is a customary, albeit infrequent, occurrence.” Except that he called a Cardinal his “enemy.” Really ebby, a new low in rumormongering, or is it just plain old fiction?
“Cardinal Burke is my ENEMY, so I am taking away his flat and salary,” the Pope was reported as saying, according to NDC’s Vatican source. The reported comments came as part of the Pope’s meeting with the heads of the Roman curia on November 20.
N-O-T the Pope. Evil POs squatting in the seat.
This is a good time to leave Rome and be on Pope Francis’ enemies list...
In this episode of The Remnant Underground, Michael J. Matt takes on critics who charge Traditional Catholics with being no better than Martin Luther for resisting Pope Francis.
Do they have a point? Francis Fatigue is not reserved for Traditionalists, however. Catholic Argentina -- the pope's home country -- just elected a president who is probably Pope Francis's most outspoken critic in the world today. And he won his election with a Latin Mass Catholic as his running mate.
But it doesn't stop there. Trouble is reportedly brewing between the Vatican and the US Catholic Bishops Conference. Vatican nuncio, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, accuses the American bishops of dragging their feet on Synodality and the spirit of the Catacombs Pact.
Meanwhile, as Francis invites a busload of transexuals to have lunch with him in the Vatican, critics, including political commentator Dinesh D'Souza, accuses the Pontiff of confirming sinners in their lifestyle, rather than calling them to convert.
It sounds like Cardinal Burke is trying to do his best, in his position, to become a saint, as we all should likewise do.
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