Conclave: A Mediocre College of Cardinals?

[RolandVT]

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Luis Badilla, a physician and Vatican expert, was interviewed by Stefano Chiappalone on the March 1 program I Venerdi della Bussola, before the passing of Pope Francis. He stated bluntly: "The Church must prepare for a vacancy of the See by resignation or a vacancy by death." The former editor of the well-informed blog Il Sismografo, now closed, explains in detail.

He believed that the Pope, even if he were able to return to Santa Marta, had his own burden of chronic and degenerative illnesses. "The Holy Father is at the end of his life, due to his age, his illnesses, and their characteristics," Luis Badilla asserts, "because his clinical situation suggests that the crises will gradually become more frequent." It was an accurate medical prognosis.

Consequently, Luis Badilla then examined the qualifications of the prelates who will make up the next conclave, and noted a "well-founded doubt that has been circulating for several years: the average level of preparation and competence of the new cardinals has declined considerably with Francis's appointments.”

"From what we have seen in recent years, it does not seem that there are enlightened minds within the College of Cardinals, endowed with great moral rectitude. However, the times we are living in are the same ones in which the Church has been called upon to find high-level figures to help it overcome the great global crises of civilization."

According to him, "the cardinals who speak most to the press, although they are collaborators of the Supreme Pontiff, do not fly higher than any bishop of an average diocese. There is a blatant lack of grandeur, vision, and purpose.”

"It's all business as usual: papolatry, which is hardly useful. They don't look like clergymen eager to put themselves out in service of the Church. They easily reveal themselves as clerics who do everything to put the Church at their service."

And he concludes, without any illusions about the episcopal staff as a whole: "In the diocesan nomenklatura, from one end of the world to the other, the motto is the same: change today, as yesterday, as tomorrow; the important thing is to stay afloat. Many believe it's a matter of love and loyalty to the Pope, the successor of Peter, [which is] a true and real thing. But many are more concerned with their own interests, namely, using the Church to further their careers."

Cardinal Müller spoke about the qualities of the future pope on March 3rd on LifeSiteNews: "I hope that there is in the College of Cardinals a deeper reflection about the condition and the situation of faith and the Church in this post-Christian or anti-Christian world, the Western world.”

"Also taking into account the challenges of Islam, or the worldwide growing Marxism in different forms, the 'Green Movement,' ‘genderism,’ and transhumanism. We spoke at the beginning about Marxism, but there is a deeply anti-Christian sentiment against creation, against revelation, and against redemption by God. Ideologies and these groups like George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Rockefellers—they are promoting a strong anti-Christian ideology."

He added: "The cardinals must be aware that we are not only looking at what will be the reactions of the mass media, saying, 'We need a pope who is a communicator in this world.' Or secondary criteria that 'now we need an African, or now we return to an Italian,’ or all these stupid criteria. They have nothing to do with the papacy."