Burke: Francis' Claim That Christ Is In Rivers And Trees Is "Simply Not True"
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For Burke, positive reactions to the document, for instance Cardinal Müller's, are misplaced, because QA contains passages "which gravely contradict theological truths."
An example: Francis writes “that Christ is in the river and in the trees and so forth.” Burke calls this "classical animism" and "simply not true.”
QA's talk about a lay Church is for Burke “a kind of Protestant idea” that questions the priesthood as a sacrament.
He knows from one bishop who saw a previous version of QA that it contained a paragraph abolishing celibacy, “It would seem to me it was intended to be included." Burke believes Francis backtracked because of the Ratzinger/Sarah book.
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