"Donald Trump wants Raymond Burke as the new pope. The President of the United States, who will be in Rome on Saturday to pay tribute to Pope Francis at the funerals, already knows who he would choose as his successor. And if he could, he would certainly put in a good word.
The hypothesis of his candidacy is a sign of the ongoing debate regarding the direction of the Church after the era of progressivism opened by Francis.
Cardinal Burke is 76 years old and, as mentioned, has a strongly conservative profile, tied to a church from which Francis has distanced himself since his first day as pope. Raymond Burke has always spoken out against LGBTQ+ communities, against divorce, and against abortion.
At the moment he is not among the favorites, but if the cardinals decide that the next pope should be a conservative with a different idea of the church from Bergoglio's, his name could come back into the spotlight."
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