"The Devil also participates in the Conclave". No one can predict the outcome.
"The Devil also participates in the Conclave". No one can predict the outcome.
Despite the enormous coverage of the Conclaves, the result is often unexpected. Keys to an information gap: opacity, power struggles, and Vatican dramas
The ways of the Vatican are inscrutable: when it is impossible to guess the new Pope. A forgotten episode in the eventful life of Jorge Bergoglio. After having been almost everything in the Argentine Church, the Jesuit authority ignored him due to power balances that were difficult to explain. A prematurely retired Bergoglio was transferred to a peripheral town, where he lived for a few months between prayer, depression, and introspection. The melancholy of the Chinese vase. “Under the new Jesuit leadership, Bergoglio had entered a period of decline within the Society. He was a priest without projection, without an assigned mission, with the emotional impact that this has on a Jesuit, which undermines Ignatian vitality. And while it is true that after each …