How did a College of Cardinals largely appointed by John Paul II and Benedict XVI elect this man Pope? This non-Catholic is genuinely baffled.
and what happened to Pope Benedict? I thought they held office until they croaked.
“How did a College of Cardinals largely appointed by John Paul II and Benedict XVI elect this man Pope? This non-Catholic is genuinely baffled”
My guess is that it is the very deals made in that college of cardinals as they were choosing the next pope that empowered McCarrick.
If it helps, this Catholic is equally baffled. Supposedly, JP2 and Benedict stocked the College of Cardinals with good, conservative men. No idea how this current Pope was elected.
Many Catholics are genuinely baffled.
More and more it’s looking to me like Benedict was forced out by the lavender mafia so they could install their own guy - who far from being just this super loving guy who wants the whole world to live in harmony kumbaya style, is a radical leftist. Evidence appears to point to this agenda being the very reason Bergoglio is there to begin with - little else explains his stacking his entire inner circle with known scandal ridden non chaste men, as well as putting these individuals into powerful positions where they’d also be in a position to abuse. There is simply no way he didn’t know. Nobody rises the rungs as he did in any organization by being an idiot, and coming up through the Dirty War in Argentina, he would have to have been savvier than most to the importance of information gathering and secrecy.