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by David Martin
With theologians and bishops aghast over what some are calling ‘the most terrible schism the world has ever seen,’ it behooves the Catholic hierarchy to take a closer look at the 2013 papal election since it appears to have raised to the Chair of Peter “a man, not canonically elected.”
To recap, on the eve of the 2013 conclave, Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga who was one of the key kingmakers for the papal election was busily on the phone with cardinal electors from the Honduran embassy in Rome. His frenzied phone effort was the tail end of an intense lobbying campaign to secure votes for the election of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as pope.
That same day, Maradiaga attended a private meeting of Bergoglio supporters, which included key players in the “St. Gallen Mafia,” and together they garnered pledges for up to twenty-five votes for Bergoglio. Not surprisingly, Bergoglio opened with twenty-six votes on the first day of the conclave, though that number would rise to 77 on the second day indicating that this campaign effort was gaining ground. Three days later the newly elected Pope Francis asked Maradiaga to head his powerful new Council of Cardinals, known as the “Council of Nine.”
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Thank you for this post, gathering all the pertinents !! Cardinal O’Malley is infrequently mentioned ever. Only in the dinner at which they made plans and he is not ever written up as being in agreement with words or acts. His presence there, and, knowledge of the demonic plans to elect a destroyer bespeaks his involvement nonetheless. He is always so sweet looking and mild with scarce opposition from the ‘Right’ so I wonder about him. He remains on C9. That says a lot. What gives with him? Will he be the next Pope? Is he a silent long sufferer? A land mine? (His close adviser is Father Bryan Hehir)