I don’t buy the theory that the College of Cardinals was playing a game of “good cop/bad cop”—Bergoglio as a temporary Bad Cop, elected to make future run-of-the-mill modernist Popes look good.
I think there was and is a large faction of homosexual, Marxist, Satanist (some of them) Cardinals, who hate the Church and want to change it. They don’t want to put it out of business because it’s the vehicle they have used to ride to power and wealth. And, of course, there are plenty of bishops and priests like them. The homosexual, Marxist Cardinals elected one of their own to the Papacy, that’s all.
Whether you buy there was intention or not, I still predict that is what will happen. When the less flaming Modernist takes the Seat, most will go back to thinking we have a Catholic pope again and everything will be honky dory. Phew!