“The author knows it was a combination of both. The headline simply means that this talk got a lot of attention among”
Got it. The candidates do things, say stuff, and the cardinals react, showing the Holy Spirit who He should choose... Which somehow then convinces them that he is the one they convinced the Holy Spirit to choose. Both/and.
Yeah vent your bile.
God ordinarily works through ordinary means. Evangelicals claim all the time that they know their interpretation of Scripture is correct because they ask the Holy Spirit to guide them, and he does. Okay, so the Cardinals prayed (repeatedly) for the Holy Spirit’s guidance in their deliberations and their balloting. Are you telling us it only works when Evangelicals do it?
Bottom line..God determines what leaders are in Power...both the good, bad and in between..regardless of the means of men to determine that. And He uses all men to accomplish his purposes....good and bad.
So far I rather like what this Pope is doing....he’s shaking things up and that’s a good thing.....He’s going to have to dodge many who will oppose this shaking...but so far he’s got them ‘off balance’... as we can see by reponses here on the threads and in the press.
What the end result..remains to be seen...but he’s certainly a man with a mind, so far, to do it the way he determines.