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| Cardinal Raymond Burke |
In an interview with Ireland’s state broadcaster, RTE, one of the
Catholic hierarchy’s most outspoken defenders of life and family and the
Church’s sexual moral teachings again indicated Pope Francis needs to
“clarify” that divorced and remarried Catholics, and active homosexuals,
cannot be admitted to the sacraments.
As he did during the course of the contentious Extraordinary Synod of
Bishops in Rome last month, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke told RTE in a
video interview, “I believe very strongly that – I’m not the pope, and
I’m not in the business of telling him what to do – but in my judgment
this needs to be clarified, and there’s only one person who can clarify
it at this point.”
The possibility of the Church in any way accepting sexual immorality,
whether in the form of divorce, “second marriages” or homosexual acts,
he said, must be taken “off the table” for next year’s Synod in a
definitive way that only the pope can accomplish.
The cardinal denied that this was an instance of “defying” the pope’s
authority, saying that Pope Francis would agree that Church teaching is
immutable. But he added that he cannot see how the Church’s teaching is
being clarified by the Synod process of protracted discussion and
debate. He said that he has heard from lay people that “there’s really
just a growing confusion about what the Church really teaches, and we’re
not coming to any clarity.
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