Editor’s Note: So it seems that there was a nefarious motive for calling the First Congregation before the entire College could attend: they voted in 3 of Pope Francis’ closest collaborators to assist Cardinal Farrel in governing the Vatican City State for the next 3 days. This gives them basically carte blanche to destroy any documents they need to destroy to prevent their own prosecution for crimes during Bergoglio’s antipapacy and papacy. The next Congregation will be Wednesday afternoon. The Three Cardinals elected will hold their offices until Friday morning.
The Cardinal Dean, Msgr. Giovanni Battista Re perhaps thought he could get away with this because of his extensive influence in the Sacred Hierarchy, as I detailed in the article, “The House of Cardinal Re“.
Nevertheless, this way of starting the preparations for the Next Conclave could not be more suspect. I think we can expect a lot of irregularities in the Conclave and quite possibly enough of them to put doubt on the validity of the election. Pope Francis got into power by vote canvassing during an invalid Conclave, and it looks like his supporters are out to stay in power no matter what.
However, the Cardinals who have perpetrated this grab for power are short sighted, because they won the vote in the first general congregation of the College, but they did so at the cost of alienating all the other Cardinals who could not attend, and the minority who would not support them today. And together, that is the majority of the College. — There are 250 cardinals, of whom 130 can vote in the upcoming conclave. A reported 60 cardinals were in attendance today.
Thus, I will risk a prognostication: that the three Cardinals elected today to assist the Camerlengo, Cardinal Farrel: Cardinals Pietro Parolin, Stanisław Ryłko, and Fabio Baggio, will not be elected Pope, and the candidates they urge to be elected, will likewise suffer similar suspicion. Likewise, the Cardinal Dean, Msgr. Giovanni Battista Re, you can scratch from the list of papabili, for launching and enabling this outrageous power-grab. Moreover, Cardinal Farrel, for being the room-mate of Cardinal McCarrick, already is likewise off the list.
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If only the Swiss guard protected Jesus and his Church, and not just a pope. We’d have everything on the up and up around there.
The next Pope should be someone like Acrhbishop Vigano.