In June, Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Raymond Burke, 60, to lead the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. He is the first American to hold the position. Bishop Robert Hermann, 74, is serving as the archdiocesan administrator until Benedict names Burke's successor as leader of the roughly 450,000-member archdiocese. In an interview last week with the archdiocesan newspaper, the St. Louis Review, Burke said he would want his critics "to see that what I did in terms of discipline in situations, to see it in a context of pastoral charity, really, of pastoral love."

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