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Tagged: Cardinal Burke

Francis is not a “Dictator Pope”

America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell published an article Thursday reporting that Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Pope Benedict’s longtime private secretary and former prefect of the papal household under Pope Francis, has been appointed by the pope to serve in the Vatican...

Where is Father Altman?

I have returned to the US, following several days in Lourdes. While there, I participated in the 27th annual St. Francis de Sales International Congress, along with around 250 other Catholic journalists and communications professionals, hailing from 30 countries (although...

Cardinal Burke’s meeting with Pope Francis

Earlier today, longtime papal critic Cardinal Raymond Burke had a private audience with the pope — his first in about seven years. Other than announcing that this meeting was on the pope’s schedule in the daily press bulletin, following standard...

Strickland, Voris, and Burke: The November Three

November 2023 was a dispiriting month for the reactionary wing of the US Catholic Church. In the span of a few weeks, following closely on the heels of October’s historic Synodal Assembly, three prominent American figures — Bishop Joseph Strickland,...

New Debrief: Tradition, Schism, and Cardinal Burke

  In the latest Debrief, Dominic and I discuss the competing understandings of “tradition” in the Catholic Church today. Beginning with a discussion of Ratzinger’s dynamic understanding, they explore how ideologies undermine the faith and foment schism, as exemplified by...

Unofficial translation of pope’s response to Dubia 2.0

Update: Vatican News has now published a “provisional English translation”. This morning, Cardinal Raymond Burke and four other Cardinals published two sets of “dubia” that they sent to Pope Francis this summer. They submitted the first set of dubia on...