{"id":322,"date":"2014-10-01T19:51:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T19:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=322"},"modified":"2014-10-01T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T19:53:38","slug":"burke-the-pope-can-speak-for-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Burke: The Pope Can Speak for Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/burke3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-326 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/burke3.jpg?resize=580%2C358\" alt=\"burke3\" width=\"580\" height=\"358\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Catholic\/RNS news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscatholic.org\/news\/201409\/us-cardinal-raymond-burke-mounts-defense-catholic-teaching-divorce-29409\" target=\"_blank\">reports <\/a>strong words from Cardinal Burke about Cardinal Kasper\u2019s recent defense of his Holy Communion proposal in the press:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cI find it amazing that the cardinal claims to speak for the pope,\u201d said Burke, the former archbishop of St. Louis, speaking from Rome. \u201cThe pope doesn\u2019t have laryngitis. The pope is not mute. He can speak for himself. If this is what he wants, he will say so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cBut for me as a cardinal to say that what I am saying are the words of Pope Francis? That to me is outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RNS continues:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Burke also said whatever Francis thinks about a more lenient approach on Communion for remarried Catholics, the pope can\u2019t change current church teaching because he and all bishops \u201care held to obedience to the truth\u201d about marriage, and that cannot change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Catholic\/RNS news reports strong words from Cardinal Burke about Cardinal Kasper\u2019s recent defense of his Holy Communion proposal in the press: \u201cI find it amazing that the cardinal claims to speak for the pope,\u201d said Burke, the former archbishop of St. Louis, speaking from Rome. \u201cThe pope doesn\u2019t have laryngitis. The pope is not <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=322\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}