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Francis' Main Legacy Are Unsuitable, Bad Bishops

On 22 April, ElWanderer.com wrote that one of the most painful legacies of Francis’s pontificate was the bishops he left the Church.
In Argentina, Francis appointed 67 bishops, choosing them from among priests who lacked the most basic and essential qualities.
On at least three occasions, Francis appointed bishops in Argentina who accepted the nomination but then renounced their consecration weeks later. The rumoured reason was 'skeletons in the closet'.
The same happened with the failed Indonesian bishop, Pascalis Syukur: he was chosen as a cardinal by Bergoglio in 2024, gladly accepted the designation, but resigned a few days later. It later emerged that he had been in a romantic relationship with a woman with whom he had two children.
It seems likely that Francis appointed bishops from among priests he found personally agreeable or with whom he had some affinity.
ElWanderer gives another example. All of the Jesuits who formed the Bergoglian group in the 1980s are now bishops.
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Irishpol

I suspect the followers of their new religion, and Conciliarism most certainly Is a new religion, would absolutely disagree. Virtually all post-Vatican II appointees are faithfully following the false and heretical teachings of the Second Vatican Council.

I'd say mostly since Sebastiano Baggio, but not at the scale of Bergoglio

Jeffrey Ade

Each modernist builds on the ruins of his predecessor. They only get worse as the Overton Window shifts.

Jeffrey Ade

Seriously? Since John XXIII the pope's main legacy has been exactly the same.