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[quote]In 2004, the Wisconsin native said he would refuse to give pro-choice Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) communion. In 2007, he resigned from the board of a Catholic hospital after it invited Sheryl Crow, who is pro-choice, to play a benefit concert. And in 2009, [B]he chastised the University of Notre Dame for giving President Obama an honorary degree.[/B]
In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI made Burke head of the Vatican’s supreme court. In 2010, he made Burke a cardinal.
[B]Burke ultimately found himself removed from a Vatican committee that selects bishops.[/B] But his dismissal didn’t stop him from speaking out. If anything, he went further.
“Many have expressed their concerns to me,” Burke said last week, as USA Today reported. “There is a strong sense that the church is like a ship without a rudder.”
Zoinks. For Francis,[B] this seems to have been the last straw.[/B] Working for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Burke will still be in Rome — but will have to lob his criticisms of the pope from outside the Vatican’s inner corridors of power.[/quote]
He now runs a charity for the elderly.
