Signatura Prefect, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke has been appointed to serve in the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops.Also appointed was Toledo Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, Lifesite News reports.
The influence of the new appointees could be long-lasting, with membership renewed every five years, Lifesite News says.
With mandatory retirement from curial offices being 80 years, Burke, at 61, could remain active in the Congregation for nearly 20 years, allowing him to have significant impact on the direction of the Catholic Church worldwide.
Cardinal Canizares, another appointee to the Congregation for Bishops, who is currently the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and former head of the ancient archdiocese of Toledo in Spain, told LifeSiteNews.com in an interview in July that the withholding of Communion from pro-abortion politicians is a matter of pastoral concern for their souls.
"I think that the strongest words are found in St. Paul: one who goes to the Eucharist and is not properly prepared, duly prepared, 'he eats his own condemnation'. This is the strongest thing that we can say and what is the most truthful statement," he said.
A friend of Pope Benedict, Canizares has been nicknamed the Ratzingerino, or "Little Ratzinger."
In 2006, responding to anti-family and anti-life legislation by the Zapatero socialist government in Spain, Cardinal Canizares took up one of Pope Benedict's themes against moral relativism, saying that without an objective moral standard, societies inevitably slide into totalitarianism.
Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, former archbishop of St. Louis and currently prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (the Vatican's highest court) has been named to the Congregation of Bishops, where he will have a great deal of say in who is chosen to become a bishop in the United States (along with Cardinal Bernard Law).
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