The Pope Has Critics Among Leaders and Laypeople in the American Church
Pockets of conservative Catholics exist at all levels, and they see the pope’s decision to punish an outspoken cardinal as another move against them.
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Pockets of conservative Catholics exist at all levels, and they see the pope’s decision to punish an outspoken cardinal as another move against them.
Pope Francis’ relationship with the conservative wing of the American Catholic Church was already on shaky ground when reports surfaced this week of his plan to evict one of his most prominent critics from a Vatican-subsidized apartment in Rome. Cardinal Raymond Burke, who led dioceses in St. Louis and Wisconsin before moving to Rome, is a lion of the faith among conservative Catholics who see him as a defender of tradition and orthodoxy in a dangerously unmoored church. The move comes just week