Benedict doesn’t seem any weaker.
Wasn’t it some shadowy group of homo lefty German Cardinals that pushed Benedict out..?
The more insane things i hear from BeguilingDevilPope, the more curious I grow about the exact murky event chain that suddenly sent Benedict packing.
I’m not a Catholic, so I don’t have a dog in the hunt, but it looks like a putsch from the outside looking in.
A former Catholic friend of mine says financial fiddling and the Bank of Rome has something to do with it. Seems more like a mutiny to me.
I’m glad it isn’t my problem.
I’ve read that Bergoglio(Francis) got to within 72-40 before Benedict was elected on the next ballot but have to wonder if the word “struggle” is a bit much since Benedict was elected rather quickly. Was it the fourth ballot? No doubt, there was an effort against Ratzinger but a “dramatic struggle”?