text: There was a stalemate.  At the 2014 Synod, par. 52 on communion for the divorced and remarried failed to pass, but it drew 59% approval (that's better than Reagan's '84 landslide victory over Mondale--the most resounding one in recent history).  At the 2015 summit, pars. 84-86 drew the two thirds majority, but watered down the language.  Nevertheless, the emphasis on "integration," "discernment" and "pastoral accompaniment" gave Francis what he needed, albeit couched in compromise language.  What Card. Burke is trying to do is shut the door that the Synod left cracked open, and usurp the Roman Pontiff's role as the proper relator/interpreter of the Synod.
  
  By contrast, there is no confusion.  Some bishops are taking competing views, but the synod report left it up to the bishops to provide guidance (par. 85), and Amoris Laetitia enshrines that role for them (par. 300).  It's clear.  Card. Burke just doesn't like what he sees.