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Former La Crosse Diocese bishop receives punishment from Pope, gives up Vatican apartment
A former bishop of the La Crosse Diocese is being punished by the Pope for being a source of “disunity” in the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis revoked the right of retired Cardinal Raymond Burke to have a subsidized Vatican apartment and salary.
The 75-year-old Burke, a western Wisconsin native, led the diocese in La Crosse for nine years beginning in 1995 and was named a cardinal 13 years ago — retiring from that position earlier this year.
He has become an outspoken critic of the Pope on issues such as acceptance of gay and transgender Catholics and other reform measures within the church.
Burke claims Francis is promoting a political agenda.
Burke reportedly spends much of his time at the Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine, which he founded outside of La Crosse.
John
November 29, 2023 at 11:00 am
Horrible guy….trying to follow doctrine of the Catholic faith is creating disunity.
Jim Banks
November 29, 2023 at 9:09 pm
He’s a central Wisconsin native
He became the Bishop of LaCrosse diocese and put us in $22 million debt and left for St. Louis and became an Archbishop and then a Cardinal
I’m not opposed to some of his opposition to the Pope
Randy Gage
January 27, 2024 at 11:18 pm
Why are the Pope’s interests in Church direction highlighted as “political”, by fierce ideologues like Burke while simultaneously Burke’s proccupations with his brand of propriety, stuffy pomp and pageantry are hawked as appropriate and legitimate. Christ wasn’t addicted to money, position, and power, was He?