Uncountable are the numbers of Catholics who are frustrated, flummoxed, and fulminating against the St Gallen Group with its plan to make Bergolio Pope.
But is such pre-conclave planning a novelty?
It was late in 1958 and the death of Eugenio Pacelli was bringing renewed activity to the offices at Piazza San Calisto, when coming on a weeping Elizabeth Gerstner, Miss Goldie
asked what troubled her. The answer seemed obvious so the German countered with a question of her own, “Tell me, Rosemary, who do you think is going to be the next Pope?”
“Why, didn’t you know? Angelo Roncalli, of course.”
Who? Oh, you mean the Patriarch of Venice? But why ?”
“Oh, Elizabeth, you don’t know anything, do you? Roncalli will be Pope for a few years and then Gianbattista Montini, of course.”
Cardinal Heenan of Westminster who took part in the 1958 Conclave, confirms the Roncalli-Montini plan. In his biography, Crown of Thorns he relates, “There was no great mystery about
Pope John’s election. He was chosen because he was a very old man. His chief duty was to make Msgr. Montini (Archbishop of Milan) a cardinal so that he could be elected in the next conclave.
That was the policy and it was carried out precisely.”
That is, Pope John 23rd was elected as a place holder Pope while Montini was marinating in Modernism in Milan.
That is, Pope John 23rd was elected as a place holder Pope while Montini was marinating in Modernism in Milan.
Well, it has been said that politics makes strange bedfellows.
And it does, for what Catholic would have imagined that the Abp. of Milan (future Pope Paul VI) Montini would have been taking meetings in Milan with the infamous American radical, Saul Alinksy.
The Apb. Montini, Saul Alinsky, and Jacques Maritain were all vibrating in unison to the integral humanism music and for which soothing songs Vatican Two was to supply the libretto.
No more Mean Mr. Mustard Militancy but, rather, love was all we needed.
Well, it was Paul VI who told the clergy of Rome that he could exercise discipline against heretics and the malign miscreants but he preferred to be loved.
Yes, that the perverted papacy is all about the proclivities, passions, and prejudices of the person of the Pope is nothing new...