I don’t think we know who Benedict might have favored. You aren’t thinking he was in the Conclave, are you? (I always thought he should have become Cardinal Ratzinger again, although maybe he didn’t make that choice precisely to avoid being in the Conclave!)
I have read that Cardinal Burke stood up and argued against the election of Bergoglio—which is, of course, why Bergoglio took immediate revenge on him.
Bergoglio’s mind closed many decades ago. He enforces a bubble around himself. His “humility” is all a pose. He is spiteful, angry, and vicious. With this bitter, dishonst encyclical, he has blown his cover with many, many people.
Maybe Benedict did take a hands off approach when he resigned; I would have thought that he’d have made some say about his successor.
Maybe he’s there now thinking “Good grief, what was just wrought through my quitting this early in the game?”
It would seem to me that a Christian attitude wouldn’t want to name a bully for a top position like that.
Jesus Christ will continue to bless and save genuine believers in Him; He promised it. But there’s no guarantee that any earthly official, or group of them, is going to be a believer or believers..
Bishop Schorri (sp?) of the “Episcopalians” who thinks nothing is a sin, does thing that denial of global warming is a sin.