"The first of these, in chronological order – it was made public by “Corriere della Sera” and by the historian Alberto Melloni – points to cardinal Carlo Maria Martini as both the antagonist and the deus ex machina of Ratzinger’s election.... ...by a movement “with adequate liquidity” engaged in “a takeover bid for the papacy itself.” For this movement, read Opus Dei.
...“The Atlantic Monthly” (7) – builds upon the previous one by placing beside Martini, as the other prominent antagonist, Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The latter is said to have received as many as 40 votes: not enough to stop Ratzinger in his tracks, but enough to reduce considerably the scale of his success. And this success, in any case, is imagined to bear the infamous mark of the campaign on his behalf carried out by Opus Dei.
Both “Limes” and “O Globo” indicate a single cardinal as the source of their respective revelations. In reality, these emanate from a continuous chorus in many voices, both within the curia and outside of it, the only common denominator of which is an aversion for pope Ratzinger."
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What a load of crap. Who is the source? Dan Brown? It was one of the shortest conclaves in history. And now some (shhhh) secret Cardinal is damning himself forever by violating his oath just to tell a reporter "what really happened"??? Bull.
And did you ever hear Pope John Paul II referred to as "Pope Wojtyla"?
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LOL! Well said.
Yes, in Europe, JPII was referred to as Pope Wojtyla and B16 as Pope Ratzinger.