Your Eminence Leo Cardinal Burke,
Ave Maria.
On this Vigil of the Feast of St. James, I write to you today with the utmost respect for your office since I recognize you as a Prince of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
Your Eminence, I remember learning about you five years after my ordination as a Catholic priest when you tenaciously exposed the errors of Amoris Laetitia. You made a private correction, but then you went public.
Nine years ago, in 2016, you boldly wrote a public paternal correction in the form of several “dubia” (doubts) in regards to the moral theology heresies of Amoris Laetitia. If it went unanswered, you threatened (in the most charitable way) there would be a public correction from you. Not only was this promise made to the Vatican, but to all Catholics. And since we know there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church, you essentially made this promise to the whole world.
You never fulfilled that promise.
At this point in my letter, it would be wise to point out that Matthew 18 requires any fraternal correction be private before it be public. This is even more true for paternal corrections.
However, several years ago, a friend of a friend approached you in person, asking you to announce that the numerous peculiar circumstances regarding the purported-resignation of Pope Benedict required an investigation as to the validity of the act, and hence the validity of the subsequent Conclave.
We never witnessed you acting on this request to reveal (or even question) the obvious irregularities to Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation under duress. Nor did you expose the illegal activity that was publicized regarding the 2013 Conclave. Yes, this illegal activity was public, not a conspiracy theory.
Again, you charitably and courageously brought the paternal correction from the private forum to the public forum for the sake of another’s soul. So also, now I do the same for your soul.
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