Following Francis' announcement of a consistory scheduled for 30 September for the appointment of twenty-one new cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Aldo Maria Valli interviewed Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on the subject.
Valli: Your Excellency, here some say that among these last cardinals there could be the successor of Francis. Do you share?
Viganò: I doubt that the College of Cardinals – once the Sacred College – will want to elect a conservative or even moderately progressive Pope; indeed it is evident that the next Conclave will constitute a provocation . Almost all the Cardinals were created "in the image and likeness" of Bergoglio and they will be the ones to choose his successor - perhaps he is alive, given the new trend of Renunciation. If the voters had even a minimum of love for the Church, they would have to make themselves docile to the action of the Holy Spirit; but we know that this conglomeration of heretics - with rare exceptions - has no intention of letting the …More