Raymond Leo Burke
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Raymond Leo Burke (born June 30, 1948) is an American cardinal of the Catholic Church.
He is an archbishop and the patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, but is sidelined from the latter function.
He served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, Missouri, from 2004 to 2008 and as the bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, from 1995 to 2004.
He was Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura from June 2008 until November 2014. A canon lawyer, Burke is often perceived as a voice of traditionalism and orthodoxy among prelates of the Catholic Church.
He established a reputation as a conservative leader while serving in La Crosse and St. Louis.
Burke is a major proponent of the Tridentine Mass, having frequently offered it and conferred ordinations on traditionalist priests.
He has criticized what he sees as deficiencies in the newer Mass of Paul VI.
He is frequently seen as the de facto leader of the Church's conservative wing.Burke has publicly clashed with Pope Francis, vigorously opposing attempts by other bishops to relax Church attitudes towards gay people and those Catholics who have divorced and remarried outside the Church.
He has expressed skepticism and criticism towards attempts by Pope Francis and other bishops to do so.
Burke once mentioned the possible need to "formally correct" the Pope in relation to Amoris laetitia, although he has also expressed his loyalty towards him.
While Burke has denied allegations of being disloyal to Pope Francis, a number of statements that he has made have been interpreted as direct criticisms of the Pope, leading to a backlash from some Catholics directed at Burke.
On September 26, 2015, the Vatican announced that Burke had been reappointed to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, from which he had been removed in December 2013, but not to his more influential positions on the Congregation for Bishops and the Apostolic Signatura.
In 2016, he was not reappointed as a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship.On February 2, 2017, Burke was sidelined when Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu as his special delegate to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, notwithstanding Burke's existing role as Patron of the order, with exclusive responsibility for the duties normally exercised by the Patron.
On February 21, Albrecht von Boeselager, the Order's Grand Chancellor, announced that this meant Burke was "de facto suspended" from the patronage.
He was reappointed by Pope Francis as a rank and file member of the Apostolic Signatura in September 2017.
Early life
Burke was born on June 30, 1948, in Richland Center, Wisconsin, the youngest of the six children of Thomas F. and Marie B. Burke. He is of Irish heritage with ancestors from Cork and Tipperary. Burke attended St. Mary's Parish School in Richland Center from 1954 to 1959. (In 2012, an addition to the school was named the Raymond Cardinal Burke Annex in his honor.) The family later moved to Stratford, Wisconsin. From 1962 to 1968, he attended Holy Cross Seminary in La Crosse, Wisconsin. From 1968 to 1971, he studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., as a Basselin scholar, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970 and a Master of Arts degree in 1971, both in philosophy. He completed studies for the priesthood at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome between 1971 and 1975, receiving a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree and a Master of Arts degree. Pope Paul VI ordained Burke to the priesthood on June 29, 1975, in St. Peter's Basilica.