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Francis spent the last couple of years creating new cardinals to stack the College in what - he hoped - was a more progressive direction. But the College has a
by TheOtherHobbes 2y ago
Francis spent the last couple of years creating new cardinals to stack the College in what - he hoped - was a more progressive direction.
But the College has a mind of its own, and there is going to be some furious horse trading happening behind the scenes to steer the result in one direction or the other.
- somenameforme 2y agoNewton never realized exactly how insightful his 3rd law of motion truly was.
- skissane 2y ago> Francis spent the last couple of years creating new cardinals to stack the College in what - he hoped - was a more progressive direction. I don't think that was necessarily what he was doing. He tried to rebalance it to include a lot more cardinals from the developing world–who on average tend to be more conservative, at least on some issues. He arguably avoided the more outspoken conservatives, but he would have caught up a lot of quieter conservatives in the process. Whereas, if he just wanted to stack it with progressives, he would have focused on adding cardinals from the developed world, where Catholic progressivism is arguably the strongest.