In "El Sucesor", Bergoglio breaks the hermeticism in an interview format with the Spanish journalist Javier Martínez Brocal. He also tells what his funeral will be like and where he wants to be buried, two decisions that break the centuries-old rules of the Church.

Revelations with “non sanctas” maneuvers and votes in the last two Conclaves, the data of which are supposed to be kept in strict secret forever and ever. The relationship of the Argentine Pope with the German pontiff who had resigned from his position, something that had never happened in 598 years.