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Gloria.TV News on the 1st of February 2017 The Reason: The journalist Marco Tosatti writes that a possible reason for the dismissal of Cardinal Raymond Burke as the head of the Church’s Supreme Tribunal …More
Gloria.TV News on the 1st of February 2017

The Reason: The journalist Marco Tosatti writes that a possible reason for the dismissal of Cardinal Raymond Burke as the head of the Church’s Supreme Tribunal was because Pope Francis feared that Burke would enforce the rule of law against Bergoglio’s arbitrariness. As an example, Tosatti gives the legally doubtful placing of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate under a Vatican administrator, which had good chances to be overthrown in an appeal.

Undermining the Rule of Law: Kurt Martens, a Professor of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., writes that Pope Francis’ adventure with the Knights of Malta risk undermining the rule of law. Quote: “Unfortunately, the legal reasoning used in the Knights of Malta saga is, in general, of poor quality. It could end up threatening the Vatican's own position in international law.”

Nobody Guilty: In March 2013 a mob of a couple thousand Muslims in Lahore, Pakistan sacked and burned down more than sixty Christian houses and destroyed two churches. Now 112 defendants have been acquitted for alleged lack of proof.
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The Reason: The entire Knights of Malta saga appears to have been an attempt on part of Vatican insiders to get back at Cdl. Burke.
The man at the center of the controversy (Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager) previously ousted for being responsible for the scandalous contraceptive distribution, has been reinstated by the Pope with even more authority than he previously had.
The Order of Malta has …More
The Reason: The entire Knights of Malta saga appears to have been an attempt on part of Vatican insiders to get back at Cdl. Burke.
The man at the center of the controversy (Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager) previously ousted for being responsible for the scandalous contraceptive distribution, has been reinstated by the Pope with even more authority than he previously had.

The Order of Malta has many trappings of a sovereign state, issuing its own stamps, passports and license plates and holding diplomatic relations with 106 states, the Holy See included.
The Holy See, however, has a unique relationship with the order in that the pope appoints a cardinal to "promote the spiritual interests" of the order as well as its relationship with the Vatican, itself a sovereign state.

Although he denied it was a punishment, Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Burke to that position in 2014 after removing him as the Vatican's supreme court justice. Cdl. Burke has since emerged as one of Francis' top critics particularly over his flexible approach to whether civilly remarried Catholics can receive Communion.

Cdl. Burke is a hardliner on enforcing church teaching on sexual morals. 😡 As a result, the dispute roiling the order is emblematic of the broader ideological divisions in the Catholic Church that have intensified during Francis' papacy, which has emphasized the merciful side of the church 🤮 over its doctrinaire side.

Whatever Vatican numbskulls thought this stuff up --- it was as much about silencing Burke as anything else. 👌 All for what? Because Vatican theologians got their own pathetic little feelings hurt 😜 for having themselves be criticized as being the 'modernists' who were a danger to Catholicism.

Boeselager’s reinstitution means triumph for the small group of German Krauts in the Order and their pals in the Motherland who hold the money whip over the law and statutes of the Order. As so often in the recent Church history of the progressive Germans, it remains true that involvement in scandals – even as grave as condom-distribution – can be swept under the carpet if money is at stake. 🤨