From the Catholic News Agency.
Pope Francis on Friday had an audience with Cardinal Raymond Burke, the Vatican said, several weeks after a flurry of reported controversy involving the pontiff and the 75-year-old U.S.-born prelate . . .
The meeting comes weeks after reports that Pope Francis had stripped Burke of his Vatican housing and salary privileges, with the Holy Father allegedly claiming that Burke was a source of “disunity” in the Church and that he was using the privileges afforded to retired cardinals against the Church . . .
Francis at the end of November reportedly confirmed that he was planning to take away the prelate’s apartment and salary. The Holy Father at that time allegedly denied that he referred to Burke as his “enemy.”
What in heaven’s name did they talk about, the weather?
Sheer speculation here, but could it be it has finally dawned on Francis the plethora of radical, even heretical innovations he and his ordained henchmen have jammed down the throat of Holy Church have taken their toll, infuriating and alienating good Catholics everywhere? Perhaps this meeting with the Cardinal is an attempt somehow at making peace with those angry and disillusioned Catholics.
Maybe, but again, what could the two possibly say to one another? The Peronist Pope seems hardly likely to back off his mission shaping Catholicism into a more ethnic version of low-church Episcopalianism. Cardinal Burke seems unlikely to have had a sudden change of conscience and acquiesce to Francis’s ruinous acts.
My guess is, the Pope may be feeling, if capable of it, remorse for his childishly vindictive act of taking away the Cardinal’s salary and housing, apologizing and perhaps even restoring them, but nothing more. Francis we may be assured will not budge an inch reconsidering his ruinous agenda, which would require loving his neighbor as he loves himself. That doesn’t seems likely.
The Taos Tatler 