Cardinal Burke has a private audience with Leo XIV

America’s Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke has been warmly received in a private audience by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Although details of the conversation have not been made public, the meeting is widely regarded as highly significant. For Catholics devoted to the Latin Mass, Cardinal Burke’s meeting with the pope will be seen as a hopeful sign. Few figures have been so outspoken in recent decades in defense of the usus antiquior, more commonly known as the Traditional Latin Mass.