What happened in the Conclave?
A report from Ines San Martin provides some insight into what led Cardinal Prevost to choose the name Leo XIV. She got some intel into it from Chilean Cardinal Fernando Chomali, who just happened to share a dinner table with the Pope, soon after the 267th Successor of Saint Peter was introduced to the world: Chilean Cardinal Fernando Chomalí described the conclave that elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV as a profoundly spiritual and joyful experience, rooted in prayer and unity. "It was a very impressive ecclesial, spiritual and human experience," Cardinal Chomalí told OSV News on May 9. "I have no idea why, but I felt like I was carrying all of Chile in my heart, in my mind, even in my skin." Cardinal Chomalí, the archbishop of Santiago and Chile's only voting cardinal, said the weight of helping to elect the successor of Peter left him deeply moved. "You become aware of the responsibility of helping name the successor of Peter,...
uh boy. So much wrong, so much wrong. Men who are attracted to the priesthood for all the wrong reasons. These flamers make the worst priests. I remember one well in our parish, he ran the "AIDS ministry" and drove a convertible sports car and wore civvies. I approached him one day when we had a family crisis. You never saw such dead eyes. He was totally disinterested. What do you expect when you have men who join the Gay Boys Club for the travel and dining and all the rent boys you can get. Not to mention foreign boys too!
ReplyDeleteGod deliver us from such men.
Of course this is silly, as the papal galero is red, as the four previous popes show:
ReplyDeleteBenedict: https://www.scarboromissions.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/or691441.jpg
John Paul II: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6322/78/320/pope.0.jpg
Paul VI: https://wau.org/images/issues/33-09_F1-iOS.jpg
John XXIII: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/51/a5/99/51a599d547d9eb71d952dfb6c437d3bc.jpg
Although John XXIII DID actually have a white one:
https://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/25/saturno3.jpg