....Bergoglio apparently went through the first round of voting, which took place on Tuesday evening, into the conclave as a leading vote-getter, but a number of other eminences garnered some votes...Cardinals Bergoglio, Scola and Marc Ouellet of Canada were the leaders....
....While Bertone failed to give him support, Scola certainly had his share of believers in the Italian Bishops Conference -- it sent out a message congratulating him for becoming pope 20 minutes after Francis was named. The conference later blamed a technical glitch.
If we are to believe this report than at least one of the Bishops couldn’t care less about his oath of secrecy.
My interpretation, perhaps a bit cynically, is they passed over Scola because he knows where the problems are in the Vatican bureaucracy and could have upset the apple cart. Instead they chose a candidate, who although good intentioned, was about as far away from the day to day workings of the Vatican as you could get.
All the MSM articles on the conclave have been false and fraudulent. Many support a political agenda. All the articles prior to the selection were wrong. They picked the wrong front runners and the wrong probable winners.
I take all of these media reports with a huge grain of salt.
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Since according to the story, Pope Francis received the most votes in the 1st round, it would be inaccurate to claim as the title suggests that Oullet was “an early favorite”. He could be called ONE of the early favorites, in that the story suggests he was one of the 3 leading vote-getters.
The headline suggests the new Pope was a compromise pick after some front-runner supporters couldn’t agree, but that would be an innacurate interpretation according to the text of the article.
Multiple reports say Schoenborn nailed the swimsuit contest, looking fierce in a red two-piece that accentuated his abs, and had mastered the art of walking in stilettos, a skill integral to the Pope's role of walking on eggshells around questions of sexual abuse.But his reputation as a mama's boy did Schoenborn in. Even his vocal talents during a puppet show using the heads of Sts. Peter and Paul, with Schoenborn dressed as the Virgin Mary, couldn't save him.
"He really did make it sound like those severed heads were talking," said Cardinal Timothy Dolan. "But in the end, I just couldn't vote for the guy."