Cardinal Raymond Burke Pope Francis has reappointed Cardinal Raymond Burke to the Vatican’s highest judicial authority three years after he removed him from the position.
Cardinal Burke will once again lead the Church’s supreme tribunal as a member of the Apostolic Signatura, despite having been a prominent critic of the Pope’s Amoris Laetitia.
The cardinal previously said he would issue the Pope with a “fraternal correction” over the family life document.
In November 2014, Francis moved Cardinal Burke out of his job allegedly for the cardinal’s blocking of reforms to simplify – and speed up – the marriage annulment process.
Since then the 69-year-old former Archbishop of St Louis, Missouri, has become the leading traditionalist critic of the Francis papacy. Last November he and three other cardinals submitted the Pope with a series of questions, known as “dubia”, about Amoris Laetitia, calling into doubt the openings it made to give some remarried divorcees communion.
