Is there personal feud between Cardinal Burke and Pope Francis ?

Is There a Burke-Francis Feud?

by Fr. Dwight Longenecker

This week’s article for Aleteia analyzes whether there is a personal feud between Cardinal Burke and Pope Francis

There is gossip galore in the little world of the universal church. American Cardinal Raymond Burke has been transferred from his powerful post as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura to an honorary post of Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. The secular press are having a heyday with this news, painting Cardinal Burke as the archconservative, gay-hating opposite of the genial and openhearted, nonjudgmental Pope Francis.

There can be no argument with the fact that Cardinal Burke is a conservative. A supporter of the old Latin Mass, and known for wearing the grand traditional trappings of a cardinal, Cardinal Burke would certainly appear to be the antithesis of the plain-dressing, plain-speaking pope from Argentina.

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