Why don't Cardinal Burke and the surviving Dubia Cardinals Issue a Formal Correct of Pope Francis?

There's been a LOT of speculation on when the Dubia Cardinals will issue a formal correction to Jorge Bergoglio. Lifesitenews has this:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-burke-heres-what-the-formal-correction-of-pope-francis-will-look-l

And Onepeterfive also has an article on it, but many of the bloggers there have had enough of "talk". They doubt the "Dubia Brothers" will do anything at all, now.

As I wrote there, I'm sure the good cardinals are praying fervently, fasting, even wearing hair shirts (and I'm not mocking; they might well be). But I would suspect that most of all they're not acting because they know if they do what they have to do, as blogger Michael Dowd suggests, formally issue a formal correction and all that entails, then I suspect they're thinking they'll damage the next pope. They're thinking "political damage" and "damage control"; that taking "El Bergo" down will — sort of like what happened to Republicans after Bill Clinton's impeachment — damage the Magisterium Catholic position (the Great Catholic Middle), and in effect, produce a papal George W. Bush, a guy continually mocked and derided throughout his tenure, hounded from every side. They're reasoning that the next pope would have a pall cast over him, ESPECIALLY if he's a "conservative" Magisterium-type JPII "come again".




(A Traditionalist pope, a Gregory VII, a new Hildebrand, wouldn't put up with such criticism: he'd excommunicate anyone who attacked him, disenfranchising over half of the world's bishops, university professors, and so on. But no Magisterium pope would DARE act thusly.)

Cardinal Sarah, for one, is clearly angling to be elected the next pope, and I wouldn't be surprised if he took the name "John Paul III". (If he took the name Benedict XVII he'd meet Caesar's fate as he walked toward the loggia. Same if he took the name "Pius XIII".

I've been rereading this Onepeterfive's excellent articles and came across the "Revolution in Tiara and Cope" series from last year (and 2015) and it really is ASTOUNDING the lengths the "Deep Modernist State" back at Vat 2 went to in order to create the "Vatican II Church". Just incredible. They worked like Trojans (or devils) at endless length to pull every lever, punch every button, jerk every string, to bring about the Revolution in the Church that they did. They have NO INTENTION of letting go. They won't "go quietly into that good night." You don't go to those lengths, that level of effort, unless you're ALL IN.

And Cardls Burke and Sarah know that too, my friends. They're the French Army in 1940 and they don't even have a Maginot Line. They got God on their side, the Holy Spirit, I believe that because I'm a Trad Catholic, but they're balancing that out with the potential carnage, especially for the next pope, and they're therefore very, very hesitant.

That's the level of problem they're facing.




Pray for 'em.


I myself suspect that the next conclave will elect another Progressive. The only Magisterium they'd elect would have to be the definition of milquetoast. Paul VI come again. If they do elect a new Paul 6, we're in for another decade or so of misery. If they elect a Prog, I shouldn't be surprised if a few Cardinals "walked out" and elected their own candidate, rather than see an "El Bergo Dos" keep turning the One, Holy, Apostolic Church into the Anglican Communion.

An Préachán