Timothy Birdnow

Pope Francis is now at room temperature and media - including Fox News and the other conservative media - is pouring accolades onto the Progressive Pontiff who had made it his mission to turn the Church into an international spiritual arm of the Democratic Party. Pope Francis is praised for such things as "modernizing" the Church by blessing the Biblically condemned homosexual unions, or for his championing climatte change alarmism (clearly a pagan religion and anti-rationalist to boot), or his placing women in positions of authority in the Church in contradiction to admonishions by the Apostle Paul and others. He also championed the rights of illegal aliens to destroy nations and cultures. But hey! He has died so we are here to bury him and not to praise heim, right?

Francis came in on very strange terms. The sitting Pope RETIRED, something that has not happened for centuries. Francis was elected after only six votes, a ridiculously fast conclcave. It is almost as though there was a coup and Francis had already been chosen. At any rate since becomong Pope Francis (whom the fascist Peronistas in Argentina consider one of their own) has systematically purged the power structures of any conservatives, and replaced them with his own people. He has stacked the College of Cardinals too, to guarantee his legacy will outlive him. He's like a Barack Obama of the Vatican, laying snares for future pontiffs who actually want to follow Christianity.

A number of conservative bishops and other clergy had signed a letter warning the wayward Pontiff he was advocating heresy at one point in his pontificate, I would add. So naturally Francis turned around and sacked them all, even going so far as to charge one of his critics with schism and having the poor priest excommunicated. Francis was a vindictive man.

So who will take over is anyone's guess, but don't expect it to be someone who will restore the Church (unless God so wills it).

I suspect this conclave will be very short and that the man has been pre-chosen by none other than Francis himself. I really don't expect any surprises. More than likely the new Pope will be an African Bishop who is in the running named Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu from the Congo is a top candidate and may well get the nod. Francis was desperate to get a multicultural face on Catholicism. Besungu is a big promoter of "social justice" and Bishop of Kinshasa. He is the kind of leftist that Francis would approve as his successor.

The only thing that may prevent that is many of the Italian cardinals want the Papacy back in Italian hands, so they may elect an Italian again. Since Pope John Paul II it has been an international institution. JPII was Polish, Benedict was German, and Francis was Argentinian (although of Italian descent, which is how they sold him to the Italian cardinals). That is the only wrinkle in the drive to make the Church "look like the rest of the world" and become one with the world.

Pope St. Gregory the Great predicted that the union of the Church and the world would come near the end and would be utterly disasterous. One wonders if St. Gregory wasn't talking about our current era of crisis. Certainly St. Malachy's prophecies of the end of the world would come shortly after Pope Benedict (whom he accurately predicted). Malachi said the last Pope would be "Peter the Roman" and it has been applied to Francis since his middle name was Peter, but Francis doesn't fit any of the other aspects of Peter the Roman. But then Francis' election is a bit dubious and St. Malachi might have seen him as a usurper, an antipope.

At any rate this is going to be a wild ride. Either they pick a radical who moves the Church and the whole of Christendom into heresy and apostacy or we have a real reformer who leads a restoration (as Peter the Roman is said to do) which in itself could trigger Armageddon as the radicals make their final push for absolute power.

I'm in no hurry to see the white smoke rising above the Sistine Chapel...

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