[ebb tide]

Ultimately, I think the real fear is that discussing the mafia will open a Pandora’s box, perhaps leading to doubts about the validity of Benedict’s abdication or Pope Francis’s election. My book, however, tries to demonstrate that we can talk responsibly about the mafia, without sensationalism or baseless speculation, using primarily publicly available evidence. Ultimately, I look at the issue this way: why did Cardinal Danneels confess that he was part of an anti-Benedict “mafia”? Why did Cardinal Martini give us multiple blueprints of his revolutionary program? These men had a need to boast of their plots in some way, as if daring us to stop them. We can ignore this, pretending it doesn’t exist–or we can do the detective work to understand what these men wanted for the Church. If we’re on a train of revolution, it helps to know how the motion started and where we’re potentially headed.

[ebb tide]

Ping

[nickcarraway]

I’m not sure they did get him elected. I think they were disappointed by his selection, because they thought he wouldn’t lean their way.

[SaintDismas]

He didn’t abdicate. He’s still the pope. Read fromrome.info and barnhardt.biz and you will see that Bergoglio is the antipope.