Cardinal Burke says his concerns about synod are sign of faith

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ROME (CNS) — U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke said when he and four other cardinals formally asked Pope Francis to respond to questions related to the Synod on Synodality, they were seeking reassurances about the “perennial truths” taught by the church and not attacking the person of Pope Francis.

“The five ‘dubia’ deal exclusively with the perennial doctrine and discipline of the church, not the agenda of the pope and certainly not the agenda of the five of us cardinals,” Cardinal Burke said Oct. 3 at a conference in Rome about perceived problems with the synod, which was to begin the next morning.

“They have nothing to do with the person of the Holy Father and, in fact, by their nature they are an expression of the veneration owed to the Petrine office and the successor of St. Peter,” the cardinal said.

Cardinal Burke, a former Vatican official now without a portfolio, spoke at a conference the day after he made public the questions, called “dubia,” and the Vatican published the lengthy reply that Pope Francis had written to the cardinals in July when they first posed the questions.

Condoning same-sex unions, ordination of women and more​

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Cardinal Burke says his concerns about synod are sign of faith

Questions raised by Cardinal Burke about the synod include the possibility of blessing same-sex unions, the ordination of women and more.

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The ‘Dubia’ Were Not Meant as an Attack on the Pope, Cardinal Burke Says

The cardinal spoke out at a conference organized in Rome on Oct. 3.

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