Cardinal Protector of Courage.

It takes courage to do God's will.
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Courage Apostolate, begun by Fr. Harvey (with the help of Rev. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R.), at the invitation of the Servant of God Cardinal Terence Cooke, has always had a sort of Cardinal protector it seems.  After Cardinal O'Connor's death, the role of Cardinal protector appeared to remain vacant, until now, when it seems the cause has been taken up by the 'good' Cardinal Burke.  I like to refer to him as good Cardinal Burke since he strikes me as being a very pastoral and spiritual Archbishop, concerned first and foremost for the salvation of souls, from which all his other works flow:  Promotion of liturgical cult, Eucharistic and  Marian devotion, solid theology and spirituality, and so on.  Reproduced here is a piece by the Cardinal from the National Catholic Register on Courage Apostolate.
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For Father John Harvey, apostolates were a dynamic reality, a work that the Holy Spirit inspired the Servant of God Cardinal Terence Cooke to establish and that the Holy Spirit alone could sustain.
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Father Harvey saw his own service as cooperation with the work of the Holy Spirit, service of God in his immeasurable and ceaseless love of his children who suffer with same-sex attraction. What direction for the future can we discover in the manner with which Father Harvey gave his life for his brothers and sisters in the Courage and EnCourage apostolates?
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First of all, the future must continue to develop the profoundly spiritual nature of the Courage apostolate, not reducing it to a method for attaining sexual abstinence, but presenting it faithfully as a way of encountering Christ the Chaste One in order to live chastely in him.
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A most fruitful tool for the future development of the apostolate would be, in my judgment, a more systematic development of the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales, the spirituality of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as the full context in which sexual abstinence is practiced for the sake of a purer and more selfless love of God and neighbor. There is need to develop more fully the implications of the practice of Father Harvey to begin the recovery of the person affected by the homosexual condition by teaching “the art of meditation, or prayer of the heart.”
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In a similar way, it is the spirituality of the union of heart with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which will bring healing and strength to the family members of EnCourage. Father Harvey wisely observed:
“The real issue in dealing with parents of homosexuals is to help them develop their own relationship with the Lord. They must turn over stewardship of their child to the Lord, allowing him to bring healing to their own hearts and to the hearts of all the family.
“Only in the glorious pierced Heart of Jesus will family members find the gift that their suffering member most needs and, in fact, desires, the gift of love which is purified of all sin and enflamed with divine Love.”
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What I am suggesting here is a steadfast plumbing of the significance of the second goal of Courage, namely “to dedicate our entire lives to Christ through service to others, spiritual reading, prayer, meditation, individual spiritual direction, frequent attendance at Mass, and the frequent reception of penance and of the holy Eucharist.”
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Sadly, for various reasons, including the lack of a strong institutional support, the work of Courage and EnCourage remains unknown to many in the Church and in the community at large. There is a crying need to communicate the truth which Courage and EnCourage serve with clarity and serenity.
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That truth, like all truth, is attractive in itself. Its effective communication will attract many to rebuild the culture of life and chaste love in our society. The communication will not be easy. There are powerful forces which will resist it and even try to prevent it. But the love of Christ, flowing from his glorious pierced heart into our often poor and confused hearts, will give us the wisdom and strength to go forward.
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May God grant to our beloved Father John Harvey of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales the reward of the just. May he bless and prosper the work of Courage and EnCourage for the sake of the salvation of many souls and the building up of the civilization of divine love. - Raymond Cardinal Burke
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It also takes courage for a prelate or a priest to lend their support to these apostolates.  Many thanks to Cardinal Burke for his support.
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Many years ago, I was fortunate to meet with the saintly Fr. Harvey at St. Michael's Rectory in Manhattan, as well as Fr. Groeschel at a later date.  Fr. Harvey subsequently wrote a letter to Archbishop Roach requesting a Courage chapter be establish in the archdiocese.   Nothing was done.  Before Archbishop Flynn came on the scene here, there was not a priest in the diocese that would come near Courage - not even from amongst my friends.  To his credit, Archbishop Flynn had the necessary fortitude to establish the first chapter here, and appointed the current Bishop Levoir as the first chaplain.  The apostolate always needs the support and leadership of the local ordinary to meet with any measurable success.
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H/T to dk for the Burke NCR article.