The former Archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has died. It has long been known that he was part of the St. Gallin Mafia with the pervert protecting Daneels from Belgium, a mafia that worked to elect Bergoglio in 2005 and then succeeded upon his cowardly renouncement of the papacy. Now, a new book reveals that Murphy-O'Connor lobbied Cardinals of the Commonwealth to elect his friend from Buenos Aires - except for two, Canada's Marc Ouellet and George Pell from Australia.
As it is unseemly to speak ill of the dead, I shall leave it at this. Murphy-O'Connor has now met our Lord Jesus Christ. We should hope that the Lord was merciful to him as we hope he shall be to all of us.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/03/revealed-british-cardinal-fixed-vatican-conclave-friend-pope/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw
Robert
Mendick, Chief Reporter
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SEPTEMBER 2017 • 9:30PM
It is a
tale every bit as intriguing as the plot of Conclave, Robert Harris’s
best-selling thriller set during a fictitious papal election.
For it has
emerged that Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the former Catholic archbishop of
Westminster who died last week, intervened in the last Conclave to ensure his
friend was elected Pope Francis.
In the
days before the 2013 vote, Murphy-O’Connor co-hosted a reception at the British
embassy in Rome to lobby support for Cardinal Bergoglio, the then progressive
archbishop of Buenos Aires.
According
to a new book, Murphy-O’Connor invited cardinals from the Commonwealth but
deliberately left off the invitation list two powerful but conservative clerics
- Cardinal Ouellet from Canada, who had been a frontrunner, and Cardinal Pell
from Australia.
The plan,
which succeeded, was to persuade the cardinals of the need for a liberal pope
without interference from the senior conservatives.
The book
by Catherine Pepinster, the former editor of The Tablet, details how embassy
officials left the room to allow Murphy-O’Connor time to persuade the cardinals
of the importance of voting for Bergoglio.
Murphy-O’Connor
had been dismayed when Pope Benedict XVI was elected at the previous conclave
and was determined to avoid another conservative Pope.
Ms Pepinster,
whose book The Keys and The Kingdom: Britain and the Papacy from John Paul II
to Francis is published next month, said: “Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor was
a popular, genial man but beneath his jovial exterior was someone of great
canniness who knew exactly how the Vatican worked.
“And that
canniness meant he ensured his friend was elected Pope Francis - a pope who has
made a huge impact on the Catholic Church and the world. There have been
kingmakers in history; Cormac Murphy-O’Connor turned out to be a popemaker.”
Pope
Francis was elected on March 13 2013, the second day of the conclave, on the
fifth ballot. He need two-thirds of the 115 votes to win. It is thought the
votes delivered by Murphy-O’Connor were instrumental. The two men became close
friends after meeting for the first time when they were made cardinals on the
same day by Pope John Paul II.
In 2013,
Murphy-O’Connor was too old to vote under Vatican rules, but he travelled to
Rome, like many other elderly non-voting cardinals, to participate in talks,
called congregations, before the conclave.
Shortly
after his elevation, Pope Francis was overheard telling Murphy-O’Connor: “Tuo e
colpevole”, translated as “you’re to blame”.