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‘He’s Tearing the Church Apart’: Outrage After Pope Punishes Cardinal for Dissent Over New Woke Doctrines

Cardinal Raymond Burke is the second Catholic official in a month to be disciplined by the Pope for criticizing him for embracing gay and transgender ideology.
‘He’s Tearing the Church Apart’: Outrage After Pope Punishes Cardinal for Dissent Over New Woke Doctrines
Pope Francis speaks during the weekly general audience at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on April 5, 2023. Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images
Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
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Catholic organizations around the world are reacting with outrage to reports that Pope Francis has stripped an American cardinal of his housing and salary for questioning his support of transexuals serving as godparents and other related ideologies.

On Nov. 27, The Italian Catholic news blog La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana reported that Pope Francis called Cardinal Raymond Burke, a native of Wisconsin, a “source of disunity” in the Church.

Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
Alice Giordano is a freelance reporter for The Epoch Times. She is a former news correspondent for The Boston Globe, Associated Press, and the New England bureau of The New York Times.
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