good on ya, Francis

Excitement this week that Pope Francis acknowledged gay folks as much God’s children as himself seems premature.

The hoopla just means that Francis was suggesting a preliminary draft of a document that would offer “recommendations” to later documents.

Annoyingly, the draft used phrases like “incomplete and imperfect” and “intrinsically disordered” to reference people of different sexualities.

This was all behind-the-scenes influence of one Cardinal Raymond Burke, the second most powerful Catholic after the Pope.

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Burke is head of the Catholic "Supreme Court”, but last Friday Pope Francis had heard enough.

In the second demotion of Burke within a year, Francis pulled him from the court and assigned him a figurehead role, an embarrassment to a man of such obvious high style.

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Still, it seems fitting.

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Burke recently said “legally married gay and lesbian family members should be shunned.”

Nice to see a deserving bigot on the receiving end for a change. 

The Vatican Bishops voted 118-62 against an 

official gay welcome, just hours later. 

Officially it's still 

"a problem Roman Catholic families face."