Did A Vatican Coup Led to Pope Francis’s Election?

Three days ago, the National Catholic Register ran an article about the contents of a biography by a retired Belgian cardinal named Godfried Danneels, which gives in detail an explanation of what happened to Pope Benedict and the coup that created it.

Further serious concerns are being raised about Cardinal Godfried Danneels, one of the papal delegates chosen to attend the upcoming Ordinary Synod on the Family, after the archbishop emeritus of Brussels confessed this week to being part of a radical “mafia” reformist group opposed to Benedict XVI. . .

At the launch of the book in Brussels this week, the cardinal said he was part of a secret club of cardinals opposed to Pope Benedict XVI.

He called it a “mafia” club that bore the name of St. Gallen. The group wanted a drastic reform of the Church, to make it “much more modern”, and for Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to head it. The group, which also comprised Cardinal Walter Kasper and the late Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, has been documented in Austen Ivereigh’s biography of Pope Francis, The Great Reformer.

Over at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher has gone to the trouble of translating an Italian report that is even more curious:

The election of Jorge Bergoglio was the result of secret meetings that cardinals and bishops, organized by Carlo Maria Martini, held for years in St. Gallen, Switzerland. This, according to Jürgen Mettepenningen et Karim Schelkens, authors of a newly published biography of the Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, who calls the group of cardinals and bishops a “Mafia club”.

It’s a real shame that this is coming to light in a time when people are in desperate need of faith. While nobody will argue that the church needs to minister to modern society, which involves evolving with the times, people still need to be held accountable for their sins. If there’s no line between sin and acceptance, everything becomes very political and morality becomes redefined.

Source: powerlineblog.com