That would be a tragedy for the Church, but I don't know why I am cautiously optomistic that we might be in for a huge surprise at the next conclave coming very soon. I did read elsewhere, that Francis is deeply disliked in the College of Cardinals, even among many he himself appointed. A very small core group are "Bergoglians", a large group are wishy-washy " moderates to conservatives or leaning conservative", and a small but increasingly powerful group of "conservatives (and even traditionalists), made stronger by the vindictive actions of Bergoglio and company against Catholic tradition, and good men like Cardinal Burke. So I think we may be in for a very pleasant surprise, someone who may not be a 99.9% orthodox conservative, but someone more like Benedict XVI or to the right of him slightly....but someone willing to clean house...unlike Benedict XVI who was too afraid.

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@Dr Bobus Are you kidding? They are the ones who ELECTED him. At least two-thirds of the Cardinal-Electors in the Sacred College of Cardinals (all of whom had been given the Red Hat by either Pope Saint John Paul the Great or Pope Benedict XVI) wanted him as the next Supreme Pontiff. They VOTED for him knowingly and with their eyes wide open; fully cognizant of his history and the history of his primary backers, they cast their votes to make him Bishop of Rome. He was their choice and they knew he would fulfill their desires and do their bidding. They knew exactly what he would do and what he stood for. They AGREED with it and wanted it. That is why they put him in Office and placed the Petrine ministry in his hands. It is THEIR agenda he is implementing and enforcing. An agenda which has LONG been in the making, long before this pontificate or even the last several pontificates. Far, far longer than any of the Faithful would ever suspect, just awaiting for the right man to be elected to the Throne of Saint Peter in order to give their godless, unholy, subversive agenda life and move it forward. That is what’s so insidious about all of this. Pope Francis was indeed, duly and legitimately elected, that is an undeniable, undebatable, inescapable fact of reality, and is thus, the Successor of Saint Peter and Vicar of Christ on Earth, regardless of how we feel about him personally and in spite of what he does or says. He is the Holy Father, and in accordance with Canon Law and the unchanging Magisterium of the Church there is absolutely nothing whatsoever that we nor any other human or human agency upon this earth can do about it. And this is true even though he was set in place by men who wanted to destroy the Church as she was originally founded by Christ and nurtured by His Apostles, and remake her in an image born of hell’s abyss; men who clearly are evil minions of Satan and whose whole purpose and agenda is to undermine and overturn the dogma and doctrines of Holy Mother Church, and especially the moral precepts to which the Spouse of Christ has been ascribed for millennia. Fortunately, the Lamb of God Himself prayed for Peter that his faith “fail not.” So there is only so much damage that any given Pope at any given time can do, even Pope Francis. The wreckage is limited, thank God. But still, far too many souls are lost to perdition and the Light is obscured with the darkness brought on by the confusion of heresy and apostasy and abomination. Particularly, from that which is vomited out of the Vatican itself. Therefore, our only hope is divine intervention, which we must pray desperately and relentlessly for, holding ever to Our Lord’s immutable and invincible promise that even the very gates of hell cannot prevail against His Church.

You missed the point. It was said that the Cardinals at the next conclave will elect someone like Francis, because he appointed 3/4 of them. My response was that all the Cardinals at the last conclave had been appointed by JPII or BXVI--and Francis was elected, who is nothing like the two popes who had appointed them.

And I think you're wrong about the last conclave. Usually, there is at least a year during which the pope is dying, and the Cardinals in one way or another get to know one another and coalitions form. With the resignation of BXVI that process was pre-empted. The St. Gallen Mafia were the only ones who arrived in Rome with an agenda.