On January 28th, Hilary White of LifeSiteNews published a story about an "exclusive interview" LifeSiteNews had with Archbishop Raymond Burke, the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura. White reported that in the interview the Archbishop said that the USCCB document “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” led to confusion and support among Catholics for Barack Obama.
Two days later, White published another story referencing the "exclusive interview" with Archbishop Burke, highlighting another theme; however, so far as I can tell, LifeSiteNews has yet to publish the interview itself.
When you have an exclusive interview, don't you publish at least some of it? Unless I missed it, LifeSiteNews hasn't. It has merely reported twice on its own interview in news stories that quote here and there from the interview, but without context. White gave us some of the words of Archbishop Burke, but not the questions she asked or any indication that the quotations capture his complete thoughts.
It could very well be that LifeSiteNews accurately conveyed the Archbishop's meaning, but I tend to read their news stories with a bit of skepticism given their history of twisting the words of high ranking Church officials to fit their agenda. LifeSiteNews has published other interviews. Why hasn't it published its "exclusive interview" with Archbishop Burke?
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