Editor’s Note: Cardinal Cardozo is close to Cardinal Parolin, who was under Pope Benedict XVI the Apostolic Nuncio to his nation, of Venezuela. The Oil Money from the Marxist Dictatorship in Venezuela is thought to have played a major role in bribing cardinals to vote for Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the Conclave of 2013, when Cardinal Sodano, the Cardinal Dean back then, during the General Congregations of that faux-Conclave, sent a message of condolences to the Venezuelan government on the occasion of the Dictator’s death.
For this reason, I think we cannot dismiss the opinion of Cardinal Cardozo, who claims the Conclave will last 2 or 3 days. — An opinion which implies that Cardinal Parolin has been vote-canvassing all spring to be the leading candidate.
This has been my long standing suspicion / observation this spring: there has been an intricate but lengthy media campaign to hide that Pope Francis was dying of cortisone abuse and would live throughout 2025, along with the nasty media reactions which appeared to have been requested by Cardinal Parolin, in having Andrea Cionci’s blog erased from existence without notice, and Archbishop Vigano’s interview on Mediaset cancelled without explanation; not to mention the rush to begin both the General Congregations the day after Pope Francis’ death, without giving foreign Cardinals any chance to arrive in Rome in time, and the rush to start the Conclave on May 7th, when it could well have been called to begin as late as May 10th/11th.
All these strange oddities favor insiders, and no one is more an insider that Cardinal Parolin, the late pope’s Secretary of State.
For a short biography of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, see here.
Corroboration?
From the next report, click below, an anonymous source says that the choice to have Cardinal Parolin preach on Sunday, last, was a sign that he is a leading candidate:
However, I would dispute this, because the role of honor is assigned to the Cardinal Dean, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who was just confirmed by all his peers in January, and celebrated Pope Francis’ funeral the day before.
In fact, if the Conservatives cannot agree to block the election of a rabid Globalist, nor propose a winning candidate, they might try to name Cardinal Re, who being 91+ years old, will not live long. — That will give them time to organize for the next conclave in a few years. Cardinal Re was the right hand man of Pope John Paul II, who from 1988 onward co-consecrated with the Polish Pope, nearly all the Bishops he personally consecrated, thus making him highly respected, a known figure, and at least a moderate if not a liberal, who being so old can still remember the pre-Vatican II religion, being ordained a priest in 1957, when the Church was still sane.
For a short biography of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, see here. Cardinal Re is known to be anti-Masonic and holds a Doctorate in Canon Law. He was considering a leading successor of Pope John Paul II, in the conclave of 2005. Cardinal Re issued the decree lifting the excommunications of the Bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, and is strongly pro-life. He also played a pivotal role in disciplining Cardinal McCarrick. — For all these reasons, I think conservatives and all the new Cardinals would easily be persuaded to support his candidacy as a stop-gap to someone much worse.
And being friendly to Cardinal Parolin, the latter’s own supporters, at least some of them, could be persuaded to shift their votes to the Cardinal Dean, whose election would be subtle enough not to enrage the liberals and globalists, but decisive enough to break with the regime of Pope Francis.
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