Burke’s Conclave Dinner and the Price of Catholic Cowardice
Conservative cardinals reportedly helped elect Prevost. A year later, Rome turns away traditional pilgrims.
In this article by Chris Jackson—a piece that is simultaneously well-informed and completely wide of the mark—we find confirmation of a shocking development: the outcome of the 2025 conclave was allegedly settled over a dinner hosted by Cardinal Burke. It should be recalled that Burke is arguably one of the (true) cardinals most conversant with the Magna Quaestio. Instead of defending the rights of the Apostolic See—as Universi Dominici Gregis mandates him to do—he has chosen to trade them away in exchange for liturgical concessions. The munus in exchange for Latin! 'Conservatives' are sorely misguided to place their trust in such traitors, who, by this very act, incur latae sententiae excommunication (UDG, no. 81).