Pope Francis shows Democrats how to take back America

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172. Yes.

I have discussed this with others on Democratic Underground a few times already, and i am new here.

Burke is an ecclesiastical tyrant, who enjoys the theatre of being the center of his own autocratic imperial court. Raymond Burke pegged the meter in several categories. Politically, he was very active in promoting the Republican Party and attacking the Democratic Party. This went outside any pastoral activity. Within the church, he was an "Americaniser", by this i mean, he wanted to control the diocese as a corporate capitalist and tyrant. Not only have we ideological bishops, they have been anti-pastoral. They were the bad shepherds that Ezekiel and Jeremiah prophesied. Burke was such an extremist.

The Congregation, you mention, is heavily involved in bishop selection. It is great news, that Francis has removed Burke. If the pope removes one such character, he gives notice to all the others. With his removal from this curial position, such individuals such as himself, and other tyrants will not become bishops. The problem is these individuals. They act as pharoa of old, they consider themselves the only Catholic in the diocese. I do not how familiar you are with the church in the US, but one of the big struggles here is governance. A basic question of polity is what constitutes the church in an area, what is the unit? Is it the parish, or the diocese? The diocese (a political sub geographic unit borrowed from the Roman empire), or the parish (constituted by Jesus, when he speaks of "two or three gathered together in my name&quot .