My position is based on the premise that this pope would not have appointed Burke to the KofM if he thought either Burke's job or the KofM were influential or important. The reporters which you choose to believe held this view until - like chumming shark-infested waters - the name of Burke appeared in what was a minor story garnering little more that a couple of paragraphs in intra-Catholic media.  Burke was of little importance outside a small Catholic circle until the US for-profit media needed an adversary of a stature worthy as this pope's nemesis. So, yes, I tend to reject any narrative which relies on this falsehood. Previously, Burke was removed from a mid-sized city to a Vatican position in which he never participated in any actual adjudications. Then this pope sent Burke into what he probably thought (and I agree) was well deserved permanent obscurity.