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Cardinal Burke: ‘urgency’ to resolve dubia ‘weighs very heavily on my heart’

Updated: September 24, 2017 at 8:30 am EST  See Comments

Cardinal Burke visits Sisters Adorers in Switzerland Sept. 15, 2012.

PARRAMATTA, Australia, September 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Two of the four dubia Cardinals seeking moral clarity from Pope Francis over his controversial teachings on marriage and family have died. But this will not stop the remaining two cardinals from continuing the “important work of resolving the dubia,” said Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the dubia signers, in a new interview. 

In a wide-ranging interview with the Diocese of Parramatta’s Catholic Outlook, Burke said the “urgency of a response to the dubia derives from the harm done to souls by the confusion and error, which result, as long as the fundamental questions raised are not answered in accord with the constant teaching and practice of the Church.”

This urgency “weighs very heavily on my heart,” he said.

Confusion about Amoris Laetitia has led to people “feeling that the Church is not a secure point of reference,” said Burke.

“There isn’t clarity about these matters,” he said. “These people are in a very difficult state. It’s demonstrable, it’s a fact that we have conferences of Bishops which are contradicting one another with regard to Amoris Laetitia, Bishops contradicting

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