By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Two American prelates are among the list of 24 men who will be elevated to cardinal in a November 20 consistory.
Tag Archives: Archbishop Burke
Archbishop Burke Decries Misuse of His Statements
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Archbishop Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, has issued a statement condemning the misuse of a taped interview between himself and pro life activist Randall Terry of Operation Rescue that is being made to look as if he is participating in Terry’s “campaign of severe criticism of certain fellow bishops.”
Vatican Official Condemns Sebelius Nomination
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, called the nomination of pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) “offensive” and a “source of greatest embarrassment” to the Catholic Church.
Archbishop Says Democrats Becoming a “Party of Death”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, the newly appointed prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, told an Italian Catholic daily newspaper that the Democratic Party in the United States “risks transforming itself definitively into a ‘party of death’.”
Church Must Enforce Teaching on Reception of the Eucharist, Archbishop says
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, the newly appointed Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, said the Church has the right to tell someone who persists in grave public sin that they may not receive Holy Communion, and that this should be regarded not as discipline, but as an act of mercy for both the individual and the community of believers.
Archbishop Raymond Burke Falsely Accused
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A St. Louis newspaper has falsely accused Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis of welcoming “dozens of proven, admitted, and credibly accused predator priests” into his diocese simply because two treatment centers for priests are located in his diocese.
