Bad news. We knew from the instant of the announcement of the name of the elected cardinal in the 2013 Conclave that we were in for very, very bad news. For some bizarre reason, the inexplicable decision of Benedict XVI to resign the papacy (a resignation he thought he could somehow manage by having his chosen successor elected) backfired stupendously.
Never had the Jesuits been this heretical: yet, now they managed to get one of them elected pope. Never had the Latin American church been this problematic: yet, now the cardinals thought it was a good time to elect a first Latin American pope, and from the most secularized nation in that continent.
At the very moment of the announcement of the name in the loggia, we asked an Argentine friend for his comment. “The Horror” was our most read post up to that time, and it caused us immense grief, for people simply didn’t want to believe the evidence. https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2024/03/march-13-2013-march-13-2024-eleven.html