Can we agree with Pope Benedict, then Ratzinger? In answer to the question, “Does the Holy Spirit pick the Pope?” btw, I’ll go back and check but I don’t think I said He did or that the conclave was infallible.
“I would not say so, in the sense that the Holy Spirit picks out the Pope…I would say that the Spirit does not exactly take control of the affair, but rather like a good educator, as it were, leaves us much space, much freedom, without entirely abandoning us. Thus the Spirit’s role should be understood in a much more elastic sense, not that he dictates the candidate for whom one must vote. Probably the only assurance he offers is that the thing cannot be totally ruined.”
I think the issue is: Are the Cardinals listening to the Holy Spirit?
Given the fact that most of them are Modernists, it’s highly doubtful.