Another Perspective on Archbishop Burke's Appointment

Pope Appoints Outspokenly Pro-life US Bishop to Vatican Supreme Court
By Gudrun Schultz

VATICAN CITY, July 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A strongly pro-life U.S. bishop has been appointed to the Vatican’s Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, Catholic News Service reported yesterday.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of St. Louis to the court on July eighth.

Archbishop Burke took an uncompromising stand in a drawn out battle during the 2004 U.S. federal election over the reception of communion by pro-abortion public figures. The Archbishop led a minority of Catholic bishops who said they would be willing to uphold Church Law by refusing communion to ‘manifest grave sinners’ until they recanted.

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