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ROME – The cardinals are originally, and still ceremonially, the clergy of the Church of Rome: the bishops of the suffragan dioceses, the parish priests, and the deacons attendant upon the Roman Pontiff. Most cardinals are cardinal priests. The word “priest” means “elder”, like the Latin word “senator”, and the cardinals have often been compared to, and even treated as, the spiritual Roman senate. The word “deacon” means “minister”, and departments of the Roman Curia are called “dicasteries” — which means “ministries”, even though, in theory, they are the most junior members of the College.
The primary function of the Sacred College is to advise the Bishop of Rome. Accordingly, a cardinal residing in Rome is supplied with an apartment to allow him to be attendant upon the pope and to give him counsel when desired or needed. Many have said, however, that counsel in the current pontificate has been more often needed than desired. Since a fateful meeting in 2015 when, it is said, significant opposition was freely expressed to the plan to extend Communion to the divorced and remarried, Pope Francis has refused to allow the conventional open plenary sessions in which the cardinals can freely advise him in private.
Controversy arose recently after reports emerged that Pope Francis had decided to deprive US Cardinal Raymond Burke, 75, of his subsidised Vatican apartment and stipend because he sees him as working “against the Church”. The story originally broke from a quarter favourable to the cardinal but was then corroborated by a source close to Pope Francis, papal biographer and pillar of the liberal establishment, Austen Ivereigh, who claims to have spoken to Francis personally – while Cardinal Burke had not been informed. The Catholic Herald contacted Cardinal Burke’s office and was told he has not received any formal communication and is not making a statement at this time.
Cardinal Burke continues to serve as a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and Dicastery for Saints. His residence is located close to St Peter’s, in the Palazzo dei Propilei, an extraterritorial building belonging to the Holy See, as regulated by the Lateran Treaty. Although subsidised, his apartment is not “rent-free” (the only place Cardinal Burke seems to live rent-free is in Pope Francis’s head).
Cardinals who do not have a See under their jurisdiction receive a monthly stipend until death. While they hold an office, it could be viewed as a salary. After they resign their office, it could be considered a retirement benefit. Called in Italian the piatto cardinalizio, and continuing as long as a cardinal lives, it allows him to provide for himself and his responsibilities as a cardinal. As Cardinal Burke has reached the mandatory age of retirement and does not hold any office from which he needs to retire, the stipend he has been receiving is a retirement benefit.
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The primary function of the Sacred College is to advise the Bishop of Rome. Accordingly, a cardinal residing in Rome is supplied with an apartment to allow him to be attendant upon the pope and to give him counsel when desired or needed. Many have said, however, that counsel in the current pontificate has been more often needed than desired. Since a fateful meeting in 2015 when, it is said, significant opposition was freely expressed to the plan to extend Communion to the divorced and remarried, Pope Francis has refused to allow the conventional open plenary sessions in which the cardinals can freely advise him in private.
Controversy arose recently after reports emerged that Pope Francis had decided to deprive US Cardinal Raymond Burke, 75, of his subsidised Vatican apartment and stipend because he sees him as working “against the Church”. The story originally broke from a quarter favourable to the cardinal but was then corroborated by a source close to Pope Francis, papal biographer and pillar of the liberal establishment, Austen Ivereigh, who claims to have spoken to Francis personally – while Cardinal Burke had not been informed. The Catholic Herald contacted Cardinal Burke’s office and was told he has not received any formal communication and is not making a statement at this time.
Cardinal Burke continues to serve as a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and Dicastery for Saints. His residence is located close to St Peter’s, in the Palazzo dei Propilei, an extraterritorial building belonging to the Holy See, as regulated by the Lateran Treaty. Although subsidised, his apartment is not “rent-free” (the only place Cardinal Burke seems to live rent-free is in Pope Francis’s head).
Cardinals who do not have a See under their jurisdiction receive a monthly stipend until death. While they hold an office, it could be viewed as a salary. After they resign their office, it could be considered a retirement benefit. Called in Italian the piatto cardinalizio, and continuing as long as a cardinal lives, it allows him to provide for himself and his responsibilities as a cardinal. As Cardinal Burke has reached the mandatory age of retirement and does not hold any office from which he needs to retire, the stipend he has been receiving is a retirement benefit.
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Mercy strikes again: the unjust treatment of Cardinal Burke - Catholic Herald
ROME – The cardinals are originally, and still ceremonially, the clergy of the Church of Rome: the bishops of the suffragan dioceses, the parish priests, and the deacons attendant upon the Roman Pontiff. Most cardinals are cardinal priests. The word “priest” means “elder”, like the Latin word...
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