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The Story Behind the Pope’s Election
The American Spectator ^ | November 6, 2021 | George Neumayr

Posted on 11/06/2021 7:46:06 PM PDT by ebb tide

The Story Behind the Pope’s Election

A new book sheds light on it, focusing on the “St. Gallen Mafia.”

Julia Meloni’s new book The St. Gallen Mafia provides a valuable service to readers curious about the origins of the current pontificate. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she fills in the picture of the St. Gallen Mafia, a group of influential liberal prelates who plotted for years to elect a progressive-minded pope.

The existence of the group became known in 2015 after one of its prominent members, Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Belgium, bragged about its role in the election of Pope Francis. “The St. Gallen group is a sort of posh name. But in reality we said of ourselves, and of that group: ‘The Mafia,’” he told the press. The group, he explained, had met since the mid-1990s in the Swiss town of St. Gallen. Its members included a roster of prominent progressive cardinals in the Church: Achille Silvestrini, Carlo Maria Martini,  Walter Kasper, and Basil Hume, among others.

“The election of Bergoglio was prepared in St. Gallen, without doubt,” said Karim Schelkens, a biographer of Danneels. “And the main lines of the program of the pope is carrying out are those that Danneels and company were starting to discuss more than ten years ago.” (Schelkens later said his statement was incorrect, but that “election of Bergoglio corresponded with the aims of St. Gallen, on that there is no doubt.”)

The group had hoped to elect Jorge Bergoglio at the 2005 papal conclave. “On the eve of the conclave, in Silivestrini’s Vatican apartment, various mafia members and allies converged on Bergoglio’s candidacy,” Meloni writes.

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TOPICS: Catholic
KEYWORDS: apostatepope; cardinalmafia; catholicmafia; invalidelection; mafia; stgallen

1 posted on 11/06/2021 7:46:10 PM PDT by ebb tide
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2 posted on 11/06/2021 7:47:03 PM PDT by ebb tide (Where are the good fruits of the Second Vatican Council? Anyone?)
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To: ebb tide

Google “liberation theology”


3 posted on 11/06/2021 9:09:41 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: ebb tide

Did the more Catholic cardinals not notice who was pushing Bergoglio? Anyone who voted for him must share some of the blame for his deeply flawed pontificate.


4 posted on 11/06/2021 9:32:20 PM PDT by Catholic and Conservative (primum non nocere)
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To: ebb tide

I want to know the story behind Benedict’s resignation.


5 posted on 11/06/2021 10:25:02 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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