Burke has a long-standing reputation as one of the church’s most vocal hard-liners, with his broadsides on abortion and gay marriage even targeting his fellow American bishops. When Francis dropped Burke last year from an influential Vatican body that helps pick new bishops, it was seen as a significant shift in the church’s political dynamic.
Burke’s piece in the pages of the Vatican’s own semiofficial newspaper is an indicator of conservatives’ unease that their priorities are viewed as out of favor. Burke wrote that Francis’ new approach “cannot change the duty of the Church and her shepherds to teach clearly and insistently about the most fundamental moral questions of our time.”
At another point, Burke said that what Francis has called a “new balance” in the church’s approach did not require anyone to be “silent” about sexual morality; Burke argued that those issues must remain central to the church’s message.
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