Raymond Burke
World cardinals back pope after anonymous attacks by conservatives
By Yonat Shimron — February 13, 2017
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) Nine cardinals in a group advising Francis on Vatican economic and structural reforms issued a statement Monday (Feb. 13) expressing "full support for the pope's work" and guaranteeing "full backing for him and his teachings."
Knights of Malta head resigns on Pope Francis’ orders after dispute with Vatican
By David Gibson — January 24, 2017
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) Grand Master Matthew Festing had been locked in a bitter dispute with the Vatican over the firing of another leader of the ancient chivalric order.
Is the pope Catholic? Francis dismisses critics of his teachings
By David Gibson — November 18, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) 'I don’t lose sleep over it,' the pontiff said in a new interview. Foes accusing him of 'Protestantizing' the church are legalists trying 'to foment divisions.'
Conservative cardinals challenge pope over teachings on family
By guest — November 15, 2016
(RNS) Four cardinals accuse Francis of sowing confusion on important moral issues.
Cardinal Raymond Burke: Trump will defend human life from conception
By Josephine McKenna — November 10, 2016
(RNS) The conservative prelate said Trump understood the values of fundamental importance to Catholics and would do anything possible to halt abortion.
Cardinal Burke, anti-Muslim crusader
By Mark Silk — September 7, 2016
(RNS) His Eminence says he is talking theology. But he is really pontificating on religious politics.
Cardinal Burke insists he is serving Francis, not opposing him
By David Gibson — August 22, 2016
(RNS) Ever since Pope Francis was elected, he has faced strong opposition to his push for church reforms -- and the face of that opposition has often been Cardinal Raymond Burke.
US cardinal says ‘Christian nations’ in West must counter Islamic influx
By David Gibson — July 21, 2016
(RNS) Rome-based Cardinal Raymond Burke, a critic of Pope Francis' policies, says Islam “wants to govern the world” and Americans must respond by reasserting “the Christian origin of our own nation.”
Cardinal Raymond Burke: Tolerance vs. Satan (COMMENTARY)
By Kaya Oakes — September 9, 2015
(RNS) Cardinal Raymond Burke told an audience at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio that marriage is under “diabolical attack" by both modern culture and church insiders.
Cardinal Raymond Burke: Gays, remarried Catholics, murderers are all the same
By David Gibson — March 27, 2015
(RNS) The Catholic Church has always taught that sin is sin, but few people see killing someone as equivalent to marrying a lifelong same-sex partner.
San Francisco priest bars altar girls, sparks another controversy
By David Gibson — January 27, 2015
(RNS) The Catholic priest behind the new boys-only policy made waves at another parish when he said parishioners who voted for Barack Obama had to go to confession. The latest uproar comes amid a wider debate over whether the Catholic Church has become too “feminized.”
Does Catholicism have a ‘man crisis,’ or is Cardinal Burke paranoid? (COMMENTARY)
By Kaya Oakes — January 7, 2015
(RNS) Many women will head to Mass this weekend and note that the priest, bishop and pope have something in common: They are all men, and the power they hold in institutional church structures hardly looks like marginalization.
Cardinal Raymond Burke: ‘Feminized’ church and altar girls caused priest shortage
By David Gibson — January 7, 2015
(RNS) Why aren't more men entering the priesthood? A leading U.S. cardinal blames altar girls and a church that's become "too feminized."
Pope Francis to Curia: Merry Christmas, you power-hungry hypocrites
By Josephine McKenna — December 22, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Francis attacked the “terrorism of gossip” and the danger of cliques that "enslave their members and become a cancer that threatens the harmony of the body" and eventually kill it by "friendly fire."
Pope Francis speaks: 5 takeaways from another blockbuster interview
By Josephine McKenna — December 8, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) "Certain resistance has surfaced; I think it´s a good sign when things are discussed openly and not secretly if people don't agree. It's good to discuss things openly; it's healthy."
