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Pope Francis has lost his way says Cardinal Raymond Burke
Dara Kelly @irishcentral November 03,2014 01:38 AM
   
US conservative firebrand Cardinal Raymond Burke now challenging his own pope. Photo by: Getty
The pope may have famously wondered who was he to judge, but America’s Cardinal Raymond Burke is clearly under no such restraints himself.

In an interview with the Spanish Catholic weekly Vida Nueva this week Burke, former Archbishop of St. Louis,  compared the Roman Catholic Church under Francis to “a ship without a rudder.”

It’s the latest shocking salvo from the conservative firebrand, who is increasingly dismissive of his infallible leader.

Burke, 66, said he was not speaking out against the pope personally, but rather “raising concerns” about the quality of his leadership.

“Many have expressed their concerns to me. At this very critical moment, there is a strong sense that the church is like a ship without a rudder,” Burke, a Wisconsin native with Tipperary roots said.

Having emerged as the voice of conservative Catholicism in the US, the outspoken cardinal is increasingly positioning himself as the biggest roadblock to Pope Francis’ reformist agenda.

But Burke has reasons other than spiritual ones to have soured on Francis’ leadership. The head of the Vatican’s highest court, he has confirmed to the press that he will soon be demoted by Francis to the ceremonial job of patron of the Order of Malta, a position without influence.

“I have all the respect for the Petrine ministry and I do not want to seem like I am speaking out against the pope,” Burke said in the interview, whilst suggesting he has no respect for Francis’ leadership and speaking out against him.

Burke has been especially contemptuous of the historic olive branch the pope has recently offered to divorcees who remarry without an annulment and gαys, saying that to offer anything other than traditional condemnation is a breach of the faith.

Not only does Burke not support gαy equality, he has warned Catholic families not to expose their children to the “evil” of gαy relatives, suggesting they refuse to invite a gαy son or brother home for Christmas with his partner.

We are correct to judge gαys he suggested, contradicting the pope. “The acts must be judged; I do not think that the pope thinks differently. They are sinful and unnatural. The pope never said we can find positive elements in them. It is impossible to find positive elements in an evil act.”

85% of self-identified Catholics ages 18-29 in the United States said in a 2014 Pew Research Center survey that ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity should be accepted by society, but Burke – a far right traditionalist – has no interest in acknowledging their views.

Instead its is the minority of conservative Catholics who need to be listened to by the Vatican, he suggested. They are at the root of the church and they are feeling nauseated by Francis’ liberal sounding pronouncements.

“They are feeling a bit seasick because they feel the church’s ship has lost its way,” Burke said.

I love how conservatives paint their fight inside the Conciliar Church as a battle, of how "easy" we all have it on the "outside." How we are cowards, for not joining the battle in the diocesan level etc...

All of this mentality is anti-Catholic, and reeking with the worst form of hypocrisy + pride. The duty of inferiors is to be submissive, generally speaking. Obviously everyone knows you are to avoid sinful commands, and even the conservatives know this. The idea is really ludicrous that a little individual is somehow going "to dent" the system, when the system as it currently is an anti-Christ non Catholic organization. That really is the root of the problem, its essentially a totally different religion.