The College of Cardinals: Mediocrity Prevails
- The average level of competence of the new cardinals has dropped considerably with Francis' appointments.
- There are no enlightened minds of unquestionable morality in the College of Cardinals.
- There is a lack of charisma and leadership, the cardinals seem bureaucratic, dull, even boring.
- The cardinals who talk most to the press are no more important than any bishop of an average diocese, although they are Francis's collaborators.
- There is a glaring lack of stature, vision and planning.
- The cardinals don't seem to be clerics who want to serve the Church, but figures who are doing everything they can to be served by the Church.
- It is hard to imagine that the interventionist Francis could retire quietly to a Roman apartment and behave discreetly and mildly like the former Benedict XVI.
- Among the cardinals, the motto is always the same: I change today, I change yesterday, I change tomorrow, the important thing is to stay afloat; they call this chameleonism "love and loyalty to the Pope".
- Cardinal Parolin's supporters use all kinds of arguments to separate him from Bergoglio, in particular his character as a "mild, calm and serene person".
- But Parolin's reputation is shattered because of the agreement with Beijing and his support for homosexual pseudo-blessings, for the persecution of the Holy Mass, for following Francis so unconditionally, etc.
- The main candidates in the Bergoglian group, according to the media activists, are Zuppi, Omella, Hollerich, Pizzaballa, Leo, Cupich, Arborelius, Aveline, Tagle, Marengo, Tolentino de Mendonça and Grech.
- With the exception of Parolin, Pizzaballa and Tagle, all the other names are the result of media creativity.
- The great unknown among the most likely candidates is Cardinal Péter Erdő, 72, of Esztergom-Budapest.
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