Isn’t choosing a Pope all about knowing the man? They knew him. They liked his stupid, God-less social justice gurglings. I grew up a Catholic and even as a schoolboy I percieved a softness and a weakness in the Church. I was also suspicious of all the Vatican Two crap as well.
Anyone with even a passing reading of the Marxist Liberation philosophy of the Latin America Jesuits (for starters) could have seen this train wreck coming.
“I was also suspicious of all the Vatican Two crap as well.”
Don’t know how old you are, but I am old enough that I vaguely and briefly remember pre VCII days.
They ruined the church with that, and the destruction only continues.
Yes, the RC church has been good about holding the line on many things, but they are yet another self-destroyed Western Civ. Institution.