With the, the inevitable speculation began around their successor.
In this century, the cardinals chose two popes, Benedict 16 and Francis. The first one was on the favorite lists. The second, Jorge Bergoglio, surprised to be Argentine.
Eight years earlier, in the first scrutiny, Ratzinger had 47 votes, followed by Bergoglio, with 10. The next day, the dispute continued between the two. In the second vote, the German cardinal got 65 to 35. In the third, 70 to 40. On Wednesday, Ratzinger had 84 votes, beating the required mark of 75, and became.
Between the third and fourth vote, the Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan, sought Ratzinger and offered him his vows (at least nine) in exchange for a promise: elected Pope, he would reorganize the machine of. If I couldn’t, I would renounce. Benedict 16 resigned in 2013.
Martini feared that, in a stalemate between Ratzinger and Bergoglio, the Curia produced an Italian Tertius.
These revelations came from a diary kept by a cardinal and the interview of a friendly priest and confessor of Martini, given after his death in 2015.
It is not known when or who will be elected in the next conclave, but if it depended on Francisco, he would choose the name of John 24, indicating that he would continue the renewal of John 23 (1958-1963).
Bergoglio even thought of this name for his pontificate, but Brazilian cardinal Claudio Hummes would have convinced him to be Francis.
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