Cardinal Burke is a has-been, mostly because he created confusion by making up a power to deny Communion to Catholic politicians who refused to go along with the pro-life movement’s conspiracy to fool Catholic voters into supporting Republicans when in fact the issue is decided and the then-bishop’s urging of a state constitutional officer to violate her oath as essentially sedition.

de Souza seems to be unaware that it is cutting a document that takes time.  Letting the opinions of many have a free airing takes little time at all if you have no desire to distort. There was no formal doctrinal change in A.L., (some on the left would have liked there to be) but instead pastors were free to exercise mercy. Perhaps de Sourza suspects that the entire concept of formal magisterial teaching on every matter has gone out of style. I would not mind such a thing at all.