Bergoglio never expelled the predator Carlos Miguel Buela from the clerical state. Several Argentine newspapers such as Clarín and La Nacion when the greatest unrepentant predator in Argentine history, Carlos Miguel Buela, died, reported that the Institute of the Incarnate Word reported that (his accomplice) Bergoglio gave him his (pseudo)-blessing. Carlos Alberto Buela died in Italy at the age of 82 died on April 23, 2023. Through social networks, the Institute of the Incarnate Word reported: "Father (Buela) died serenely, with all the help of Holy Mother Church and with the plenary indulgence and apostolic blessing personally granted by the Pope (Francis) a few days before his death"

En el 2007 el cardenal Giacomo Biffi presentó ante la curia «la advertencia profética de Vladimir S. Soloviev» sobre el anticristo. Citando la obra de Soloviev, «Tres diálogos» (1899), el arzobispo emérito de Bolonia recordó que «el anticristo se presenta como pacifista, ecologista y ecumenista». «Convocará un Concilio ecuménico y buscará el consenso de todas las confesiones cristianas, concediendo algo a cada uno. Las masas le seguirán, a excepción de pequeños grupos de católicos, ortodoxos y protestantes»