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Putting the official stamp on months of rumours and what  LifeSite had confirmed  on Sept. 17, the Vatican announced today that Pope Francis has removed Cardinal Raymond Burke from his position as prefect of the Vatican's Apostolic Signatura - the highest court of the Catholic Church. Instead, the cardinal, who until today was the highest ranking American at the Vatican, will be sent to serve as the patron for the Order of the Knights of Malta.  The move to the largely ceremonial position is almost universally being reported as a demotion for the outspoken cardinal, who is widely viewed as the number one English-speaking defender of the Catholic Church's teaching on life and family issues. However, the move by Pope Francis comes as little surprise to observers of Cardinal Burke 's career. Within months of the pope's election, he  removed  the cardinal from his position as a member of the Congregation for Bishops, where he had been able to exert considera

Image via Wikipedia Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has called on Catholic schools and parishes not to invite state legislators to speak at or attend any events, and to refuse any honors bestowed on them by the governor or any legislator responsible for the bill’s passage.  The sanctions, however, do not include refusing Governor Cuomo or other Catholic politicians who supported the passage of same-sex ‘marriage’ Holy Communion . Msgr. Kieran Harrington, Vicar for Communications for the Diocese of Brooklyn , told LifeSiteNews that “there are no plans to deny Holy Communion to elected officials at this point.” New York became the 6th and largest state in the country to permit same-sex marriage last month, when Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Marriage Equality Act into law just before midnight on June 24th, less than two hours after the bill was passed out of the State Senate. In his strong statement decrying the bill’s passage, Bishop DiMarzio said: “Governor Andrew Cuomo an