Posted on 04/21/2017 7:27:13 AM PDT by NRx
Allies of Pope Francis are saying that he’s planning to follow the example of Benedict XVI and retire. But he’ll only do so once he’s appointed enough liberal cardinals to make sure that the next conclave doesn’t elected a conservative who will interpret Catholic doctrine more strictly than he does.
This, at least, is what allies of the Pope have been telling colleagues – claiming that they’ve heard it from the pontiff himself. (Francis himself is a notorious chatterbox and so are some of the cardinals close to him.)
The Pope, now 80, apparently wants to hold three more consistories at which he will bestow the red hat on bishops who share his vision of reform (whatever that may be: the details are still sketchy, four years in).
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Guy reminds me of OBAMA
Maybe there should be term limits for Popes.
The fake Pope wants to be sure his remaking of the Catholic Church sticks.
Man plans, God laughs.
Perhaps the Holy Spirit has a different outcome in mind?
It would help if mankind would repent, so we get less of what we deserve.
I pray he will have a conversion to orthodoxy like Pio Nono, who started out as something of a liberal.
Speculation sells!
I think most of us would kill to have such a “liberal.”
Believe and repent!
Maybe the Vatican gets their own Trump up next?-)
He might as well have said “I’ll retire once I see I’ve ruined the Catholic Church”.
Burke’s on deck.
Just further mockery of the office of the papacy.
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