[Grem] Card. Burke: ‘Populist rhetoric’ associated with Pope Francis undermines Catholic doctrine

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> Cardinal Burke: ‘Populist rhetoric’ associated with Pope Francis
> undermines Catholic doctrine
> ------------------------------
> Cardinal Burke criticized ideological ‘rhetoric’ that is becoming commonly
> used in the Catholic Church, warning that it seeks to replace the Church's
> ‘irreplaceable’ teaching.
>
> https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-burke-populist-rhetoric-associated-with-pope-francis-undermines-catholic-doctrine/?utm_source=daily-catholic-2023-08-11&utm_medium=email
> [image: Featured Image]Cardinal Raymond BurkeYouTube screenshot
>
> Thu Aug 10, 2023 - 12:31 pm EDT
>
> VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews <https://www.lifesitenews.com/>) — Cardinal
> Raymond Burke has issued a detailed critique of “populist rhetoric” often
> “attached to language used by Pope Francis,” which he said are “slogans of
> an ideology replacing what is irreplaceable for us: the constant doctrine
> and discipline of the Church.”
>
> The former prefect of the Apostolic Signature delivered his analysis of
> the relation between canon law and current verbal arguments via a statement
> dated May 9 but published
> <https://www.cardinalburke.com/presentations/discipline-and-doctrine> on
> his website on August 9. Entitled “Discipline and Doctrine: Law in the
> Service of Truth and Love,” Burke highlighted what he referred to as a
> process undermining the Church’s “canonical discipline.”
>
> “In the period immediately preceding the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council
> and, even more so, in the post-Conciliar period, the Church’s canonical
> discipline was called into question at its very foundations,” he said.
>
> This “crisis,” he wrote, was born from the same errors “inspiring a moral
> and cultural revolution in which the natural law, the moral *ethos* of
> individual life and life in society, was questioned in favor of an
> historical approach in which the nature of man and nature itself no longer
> enjoyed any substantial identity but only a changing, and sometimes naively
> considered progressive, identity.”
>
> Emboldened by the reforms made to the 1917 Code of Canon Law, heterodox
> canonists and theologians began to question the ecclesiastical law, wrote
> the American cardinal. “The so-called ‘Spirit of Vatican II,’ which was a
> political movement divorced from the perennial teaching and discipline of
> the Church, exacerbated the situation greatly,” he stated.
> *‘Populist rhetoric’*
>
> This current of questioning or rejecting the Church’s law is aided by a
> “populist rhetoric about the Church,” Burke stated.
>
> In the past few years, law and even doctrine itself have been repeatedly
> called into question as a deterrent to the effective pastoral care of the
> faithful. Much of the turmoil is associated with a certain populist
> rhetoric about the Church, including her discipline.
>
> Burke stated how “new canonical legislation has also been promulgated
> which is clearly outside of the canonical tradition and, in a confused
> manner, calls into question that tradition as it has faithfully served the
> truth of the faith with love.” As an example, he cited the current process
> of declaring a marriage to be null, “which, in turn, touches upon the very
> foundation of our life in the Church and in society: marriage and the
> family.”
>
> Continuing, the 75-year-old prelate referred to many of Pope Francis’ key
> talking points, stating that such words have been employed within the
> Church in a way that appears to replace the “irreplaceable,” namely “the
> constant doctrine and discipline of the Church.”
>
> Over the past few years, certain words, for example, ‘pastoral,’ ‘mercy,’
> ‘listening,’ ‘discernment,’ ‘accompaniment,’ and ‘integration’ have been
> applied to the Church in a kind of magical way, that is, without clear
> definition but as the slogans of an ideology replacing what is
> irreplaceable for us: the constant doctrine and discipline of the Church.
>
> Noting that some of these words do indeed “have a place in the doctrinal
> and disciplinary tradition of the Church,” Burke warned that in their
> current usage “they are now being used with a new meaning and without
> reference to the Tradition.”
>
> For instance, pastoral care is now regularly contrasted with concern for
> the doctrine, which must be its foundation. The concern for doctrine and
> discipline is characterized as pharisaical, as wishing to respond coldly or
> even violently to the faithful who find themselves in an irregular
> situation morally and canonically. In this errant view, mercy is opposed to
> justice, listening is opposed to teaching, and discernment is opposed to
> judgment… The perspective of eternal life is eclipsed in favor of a kind of
> popular view of the Church in which all should feel ‘at home,’ even if
> their daily living is an open contradiction to the truth and love of Christ.
>
> <https://www.lifefunder.com/campos>
> *‘Language often used by Pope Francis’*
>
> Cardinal Burke, known for his tact and discretion, did not shy away from
> naming Pope Francis as a key figure in the spread of such “populist
> rhetoric.” He noted that “the rhetoric is often attached to language used
> by Pope Francis in a colloquial manner, whether during interviews given on
> airplanes or to news outlets, or in spontaneous remarks to various groups.”
>
> However, Burke distinguished between critiquing Francis as an individual
> and as Pope, noting how criticism of Francis as a man often leads to the
> accusation that one is “speaking against the Holy Father,” leading to
> temptations to “remain silent or to try to explain doctrinally a language
> which confuses or even contradicts doctrine.”
>
> He observed how “Pope Francis has chosen to speak often in his first body,
> the body of the man who is Pope.”
>
> In fact, even in documents which, in the past, have represented more
> solemn teaching, he [Francis] states clearly that he is not offering
> magisterial teaching but his own thinking. But those who are accustomed to
> a different manner of Papal speaking want to make his every statement
> somehow part of the Magisterium. To do so is contrary to reason and to what
> the Church has always understood.
>
> The cardinal pre-empted criticisms of his differentiation, stating that
> differentiating between the two voices of Francis is “in no way
> disrespectful of the Petrine office,” but “on the contrary, it shows
> ultimate respect for the Petrine office and for the man to whom Our Lord
> has entrusted it.”
>
> With that in mind, he warned how the continued and uncorrected use of
> “populist rhetoric” enables “more confusion [to] enter[] into the life of
> the Church.”
> *Catholic teaching on law and doctrine*
>
> Wishing to propose an authentic Catholic interpretation of the
> relationship between law and being pastoral, Cardinal Burke drew from Pope
> John Paul II’s 1990 address
> <https://www.cardinalburke.com/presentations/discipline-and-doctrine> to
> the Roman Rota, observing how the application of law is directly linked to
> pastoral care:
>
> The juridical and the pastoral dimensions are united inseparably in the
> Church, pilgrim on this earth. Above all, they are in harmony because of
> their common goal – the salvation of souls.
>
> Expanding on the Polish pope’s words, Burke again quoted from the 1990
> address, saying that “any opposition between the pastoral and the juridical
> dimensions is deceptive.”
>
> In the Church, true justice, enlivened by charity and tempered by equity,
> always merits the descriptive adjective pastoral. There can be no exercise
> of pastoral charity that does not take account, first of all, of pastoral
> justice.
>
> Burke joined Cardinal Gerhard Müller earlier this year in warning against
> false applications of “integration,” when he issued a firm condemnation of
> Germany’s Synodal Way vote approving same-sex “blessings.”
>
> He wrote that “the faithful have never needed more than today priests who
> announce to them the truth, who bring them Christ, above all, in the
> Sacraments, and who guide and govern them in the way of Christ.”
>
> The prominent cardinal described the current times as ones in which
> “Bishops betray the Apostolic Tradition,” resulting in suffering for the
> faithful members of the Church: “faithful Bishops, priests, consecrated
> persons, and lay faithful will necessarily suffer greatly precisely because
> of their fidelity.”
>
>
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