Mr. Bergoglio chose a strange career path for someone with such an aversion to Catholicism.
“Mr. Bergoglio chose a strange career path for someone with such an aversion to Catholicism.”
Well, not if your goal is to destroy it... much easier to do it from the inside, especially if you have the powee to affect its workings, which as pope, he definitely does.
It’s interesting. Bergoglio was allegedly not a particularly devout or religious boy. At age 17 in 1954, he got a job working as an apprentice at a chemicals company called Hickethier Bachmann in Buenos Aires. His supervisor was chemist Esther Ballestrino de Careaga, a Paraguayan communist who’d fled her native country. Ballestrino became a mentor to Bergoglio and tutored him in Marxism. The very next year, 1955, Bergoglio entered the archdiocesan seminary Inmaculada Concepción, and three years later he transferred to the Jesuit seminary. One is tempted to connect the dots here.