Cardinal Bergoglio With Chasuble and Lace
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Only ten years later, during a June 9 audience with clerics from Sicily, he polemicised against lace in the liturgy.
In 2012, however, Bergoglio still needed the lace in order to maintain a neo-conservative image and not damage his career planning.
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