<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="m_-9108053037122129108gmail-article-title">Cardinal Burke: there are ‘other cardinals who fully endorse the dubia’</h1>
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<div class="m_-9108053037122129108gmail-article-date">posted <time datetime="2017-01-12 02:50:44">Thursday, 12 Jan 2017</time></div>
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Pope Francis greets Cardinal Raymond Burke at the Vatican in 2014 (CNS) </div>
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<p class="m_-9108053037122129108gmail-article-standfirst">Cardinal Burke confirmed that any correction of the Pope would first take place in private</p>
<p>Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the four cardinals who have asked
the Pope to clarify Amoris Laetitia, has said that their initiative has
the total support of some other cardinals.</p>
<p>He has also confirmed that any correction of the Pope would initially
be private, and denied that the four cardinals have given the Pope an
“ultimatum”.</p>
<p>In an interview with the Italian newspaper La Verita, as <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B65x5F_RAFfwT1NqVmFRNTFqUXM/view" target="_blank">translated by Andrew Guernsey</a>, Cardinal Burke said: “We are not only four. I personally know other cardinals who fully endorse the dubia.”</p>
<p>It follows recent reports that 30 cardinals, having read a draft of
Amoris Laetitia, warned that it could undermine the sacraments of
marriage, Confession and the Eucharist. The National Catholic Register
has <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/01/11/thirty-cardinals-raised-concerns-about-amoris-laetitia-draft/" target="_blank">reported</a>
that, as well as the cardinals, the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith submitted many pages of corrections. There have also been
several bishops’ conferences who have raised concerns since the document
was published.</p>
<p>Cardinal Burke has previously said that, unless the Pope clarifies
that Amoris Laetitia does not contradict Church teaching, the cardinals
may issue a correction. He told La Verita: “I never said that a public
confrontation ought to occur. I agree with Cardinal Brandmüller, the
first step would be to ask for a private meeting with the Holy Father to
point out to him the unacceptable statements in Amoris Laetitia,
showing how, in one way or another, they are not adequate to express
what the Church has always taught.”</p>
<p>The Vatican’s doctrinal chief, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, said recently
that he thought a correction of the Pope was unlikely. He cited St
Thomas Aquinas’s opinion that it was only necessary to correct the Pope
if there was a “danger to the faith”.</p>
<p>But Cardinal Burke said the “confusion in the Church over the
interpretation of some passages of Amoris Laetitia” was “evident”. He
added: “That is why I do not see how anyone could be able to say that
there is no danger to the faith.”</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/2980-the-remnant-interview-of-cardinal-raymond-burke" target="_blank">interview</a>
last month with The Remnant, Cardinal Burke singled out a recent
document issued by the diocese of San Diego. The document said that,
after Amoris Laetitia, the judgment of whether a divorced and remarried
person should receive the Eucharist should be dependent on someone’s own
sense of God’s call: “Many Catholics engaging in this process of
discernment will conclude that God is calling them to return to full
participation in the life of the Church and the Eucharist.”</p>
<p>Cardinal Burke said he agreed with Ross Douthat of the New York Times
that, if this interpretation were universal, “then the Church’s
teaching on marriage is finished.” The cardinal said that, given the
centrality of Jesus’ teaching on marriage, these interpretations must be
ruled out: “So the dubia must be answered.”</p>
<p>Asked by La Verita about the specific question of Communion for the
remarried, Cardinal Burke said that it was an “error” to oppose the
traditional teaching of the Church, reiterated by St John Paul II and
Benedict XVI. The cardinal said: “It is not possible to receive
the sacraments for a person who is living more uxorio [as husband and
wife] with someone who is not his or her spouse. To claim instead that
this is possible constitutes a formal error that goes against what Jesus
himself taught and has always been the teaching of the Church.”</p>
<p>The cardinal said that without respect for the moral law, “chaotic
situations are produced, and morally there is a sort of imprisonment.”
He added that “the divine law liberates”, and should not be seen as
simply a negative prohibition. “To teach the moral law is a great act of
love of neighbour because it points the way to authentic freedom and
happiness.”</p></div>