"Strictest Secrecy": Francis Breaks His Oath
Excerpts were published on 31 March by the Spanish daily ABC. Francis said he was "used" by other cardinals who tried to block Ratzinger's election.
Although cardinals take an oath to maintain strict secrecy about everything related to the election, both during and after the conclave, it was credibly reported that Bergoglio came second in the final ballot.
Now Francis is one of those breaking their oath. He chattered that a group of cardinals had engaged in a "full-blown manoeuvre" by putting his name forward "to block Ratzinger's election and then negotiate for another, third candidate".
He said he had won 40 of the 115 votes of the cardinal electors in the Sistine Chapel - "enough to stop the candidacy of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, because if they had continued to vote for me, he would not have been able to reach the two-thirds majority needed to be elected pope".
"They still did not agree on who, but they were close to putting forward a name."
When he learned of the strategy after the second or third ballot, Francis said he told Colombian Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos not to "joke with my candidacy" and that he would not accept to be pope if elected. "And from there, Benedict was elected."
Francis says that Cardinal Ratzinger "was my candidate" in the conclave, and describes himself as someone who "makes a big mess".
Francis' version of "Ratzinger was my candidate" is contradicted by the fact that Francis mistreated him, even after his death.
Here is the full text of the oath that Francis and the other traitorous cardinals took before the 2013 conclave. The text sounds like a hypocritical joke:
"We, the cardinal electors present at this election of the Supreme Pontiff, promise, pledge and swear, as individuals and as a group, to faithfully and scrupulously observe the prescriptions contained in the Apostolic Constitution of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, Universi Dominici Gregis, published on 22 February 1996.
We also promise, pledge and swear that whoever is elected Roman Pontiff by Divine Providence will faithfully carry out the munus Petrinum of Pastor of the universal Church and will not fail to affirm and vigorously defend the spiritual and temporal rights and freedom of the Holy See.
In a special way, we promise and swear to observe with the greatest fidelity and with all persons, clerical and lay, the secrecy of everything that in any way relates to the election of the Roman Pontiff and of everything that happens in the place of the election, directly or indirectly related to the results of the election.
We promise and swear not to break this secret in any way, either during or after the election of the new Pontiff, unless expressly authorised by the same Pontiff; and never to support or favour any interference, opposition or other form of intervention by which secular authorities of whatever order or degree, or any group of persons or individuals, could intervene in the election of the Roman Pontiff. "
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