Did US Bishops punish Archbishop Burke at Annual Meeting?

[gam197]

lifesite.net/ldn/2007/nov/07112605.html

Nominated as chairman for the Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance, 60 percent of his fellow bishops preferred his opponent. As bishops’ conference expert Rev. Thomas Reese noted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, an auxiliary bishop defeating an archbishop for a conference chairmanship is “very unusual.”

It is just the sad state of the church.

Archbishop Elden Curtiss (Omaha), Archbishop Sean O’Malley (Boston), and Cardinal Francis George (Chicago) went on the record denying that there was any message being sent by the bishops to Burke.

 

[krokal]

Cardinal Rigali and Archbishop Kurtz lost the vote for vice president as well. I wouldn’t read too much into this.

 

[Hlafdige]

Here is a commentary – written before the election – by a renowned canonist: see blog entry for November 12th
canonlaw.info/blog.html
A blessing that an expert of Bp. Paprocki’s caliber was found for this chairmanship – probably the Church doesn’t want to see Archbishop Burke spread too thin…