Pope Francis demotes outspoken American conservative Cardinal Burke

[Rareboy]

Nailed him.

Cardinal Raymond Burke, 66, was removed as head of the Vatican’s highest court and appointed to the ceremonial post of chaplain of the charity group Knights of Malta.

This guy led the charge against the homos in the most recent synod....so knocking him all the way down to janitor would have pleased me.

I'm sure that Malta isn't nearly far enough away, and the post doesn't come with a corner office....but it was certainly inevitable that the horrible Cardinal Burke was going to get a papal red shoe up his ass after commenting that under Francis, the Church was like a ship without a rudder.

http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2014...nal-burke/

With excess cargo like Burke tossed overboard, maybe it will start to be smoother sailing from here on in.

[Hardheaded1]

His Holiness has his work cut out for him.

Catholics, Protestants, and even non-Christians should pray for his continued health and success every day. He is inexorably taking down the wall, brick by brick, that about 1500 years of Roman Orthodoxy have built up against the poor, against gays, against others.

God bless him. When will we see another of his like again?