Cardinal Raymond Burke
VATICAN CITY, September 30, 2017 (LifeSiteNews): Pope Francis has reinstated Cardinal Burke as a member of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican’s highest court.
Cardinal Burke, dismissed as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura nearly three years ago, has been appointed to the court alongside Archbishop Frans Daneels, Bishop Willibrordus Maria Hendriks, Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli and Cardinal Agostino Vallini.
According to the Rorate Caeli blog, Cardinal Burke is taking a comparatively minor role in the Signatura. As Prefect, he served for six years before his dismissal in 2014. Then in February of this year it was stated that he was also “suspended” as the cardinal patron of the Order of Malta.
Dr Joseph Shaw, the spokesman for the signers of the Filial Correction, believes that this appointment is a “small step in his [Cardinal Burke’s] rehabilitation as an active member of the Curia.”
Shaw told LifeSiteNews that the importance of this appointment shouldn’t be exaggerated. However, the scholar said that it was “an indication of the common sense of Pope Francis and his advisors” not to let a churchman as skilled and experienced as Cardinal Burke “go to waste.”
Shaw notes that the first and
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