Julio Algañaraz
08/25/2021 12:27 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 08/25/2021 12:27 PM
The Chilean journalist
Luis Badilla,
director of the Vatican information site "El Sismografo", highly consulted by specialists due to his proximity to the Holy See, affirmed that "within a few weeks Pope Francis should
legislate
about the situation created by
the resignation of a pontiff
and the election of another ”. Badilla denied that Jorge Bergoglio
plans to resign
, but added that "his illness
should not be underestimated
."
The right-wing daily
"Libero",
which is campaigning against Bergoglio in which it claims that his predecessor Benedict XVI did not actually resign from the pontificate, interviewed Badilla after his Vaticanist Antonio Socci maintained that
there are rumors of Conclave
to give the goodbye to the current Pope.
He gave as the only concrete source the fact that he
will turn 85
on December 17
and has health problems after having a colon surgery on July 4 at the Gemelli polyclinic in Rome.
It is evident that "Libero"
stirs the waters
.
Luis Badilla denies that Bergoglio plans to resign and says that on the subject
"It is not spoken
in Vatican circles", but it has interesting particulars.
When the Pope underwent surgery, the alma mater of "Il Sismografo", made up of some veteran Vatican radio journalists, wrote a note (published by "Clarín"), in which he gave just information about what was happening.
Pope Francis greets the faithful in the Vatican.
Photo: ANSA
He said that the Pope had undergone
"a severe and degenerative operation
.
"
Doctors, who never signed a bulletin about his condition, had removed a meter from his colon.
Considered a neighbor to the Vatican secretariat of state, Badilla once again shows that he has
first-rate information
.
He points out that “the Holy Father has already
resized his way of acting
, what some call his physical pastoral.
He did it before the operation by limiting the timing of his travels.
The trips
He will do it again in September.
He will go to Budapest on Sunday the 12th for the closing mass of the International Eucharistic Congress and in my opinion he
will reduce the program of his subsequent visit to Slovakia,
which involves him physically.
In Slovakia, Francisco is scheduled to move between Bratislava and other towns.
He would return to Rome on the 15th.
Badilla added that "from now on we must exclude intercontinental travel, the Pope has a fragile iron health that will impose limiting his autonomy." "He will have to do things in
a short time
, not a long time."
Jorge Bergolio during the general audience on Wednesday.
Photo: EFE
Regarding the norms that Pope Bergoglio would be about to announce in the event of the resignation of a Pope and the appointment of his successor, the Chilean Vaticanist emphasizes that “at the time of Ratzinger's abdication, on February 11, 2013,
Bergoglio had to invent canonical legislation
”.
"Now it is a question of codifying this situation legally," he added.
Badilla
denies in the interview to the same morning "Libero"
and his campaign to de-legitimize Bergoglio as Pope, highlighting that it was Benedict XVI himself, "who had spoken well in advance of his resignation, saying that he was no longer
in physical condition
of to be the Pope and not because someone prevented him. "
Ratzinger “had the cosmic honesty to say I am old and I am sick, the Church is difficult to govern, better if someone else does it and I will be obedient to it”.
Director of
"Il Seismograph"
recognizes that “the Church is going through a very difficult time that has
been aggravated by the Pope's health conditions
.
But the crisis of the Church comes from distant times, it has many causes and derives from the moment the world lives.
This
makes the papacy more difficult,
whatever the Pope may be ”.
successor
The final question is about the candidate for the succession of Bergoglio.
"I reply with a phrase from the former Cardinal of Genoa, Giuseppe Siri:
Popes are made in the Conclave
."
But many signs affirm that
there is a successor
already chosen by Jorge Bergoglio.
"Clarín" has written on several occasions about the "golden boy", the "golden boy" of the Vatican, Cardinal
Luis Antonio "Chito" Tagle.
At 63, with his youthful face, Chito (for Luis) Tagle seems to be traveling safely towards the goal of becoming 267th.
Pope of the Church.
Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, appointed him as a young Archbishop of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, the Catholic stronghold in Asia.
Already in the election of the successor of John Paul II, in January 2005, he appeared on the list of "papables."
Cardinal Luis Antonio "Chito" Tagle.
Photo: AFP
For the Church "Chito" has among its many virtues that of having been born the son of a Chinese woman, which in the Asian context
has its importance.
In January 2015, already confirmed cardinal, Tagle received the Argentine Pope in Manila and
coincided with
Bergoglio's
reformist line
.
Four years later the Pope, when the Archbishop of Manila was also president of Caritas International, which manages the Church's charitable works, the Pope promoted him to Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The step was gigantic, because it is
a macro ministerial structure
of the Church, which since 1622 was created as Propaganda Fide, took care of the missions of the Church, its organization, its finances, its ecclesiastical promotion and the rest.
The only setback was that on a trip to the Philippines last year, Cardinal Tagle was infected with the pandemic virus.
He overcame the infection well, which also strengthened his fame.
A common saying affirms that “who enters the Conclave Pope leaves cardinal”.
It's false.
Without going any further, John XXIII indicated the future Paul VI as his best successor "to apply the Second Vatican Council."
John Paul II promoted the election of his right arm, Cardinal Ratzinger, who needed only four votes in the Conclave to be consecrated as Benedict XVI.
Perhaps the reality changes the stellar forecast of Luis Antonio Tagle, but the Conclave of the cardinal electors is
already controlled widely
in its two thirds by the current pontiff.
If in October-November he decides to create new cardinals, the majority would be overwhelming.
And the "golden kid" of the Vatican would have the election assured.
Vatican, correspondent
ap
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