ROME
Chiesa
The new president is one of the thirteen cardinals of the famous letter that infuriated the pope. The new vice-president is a member of Opus Dei. The defeat of the bishops favored by Bergoglio
by Sandro Magister
ROME, November 18, 2016 – Seven days after the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, the more than two hundred bishops of the United States also went to vote. To elect the one who will preside over them for the next three years.
A vote to which they came “as for a referendum on Pope Francis,” in the plain statement of John L. Allen, the top vaticanista in the United States.
And indeed it was a bit like this, even if the new president, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, immediately made a point of saying that it is “crazy” even to think that he is on the side of this pope, who is “doing some marvelous things for the Church.”
The fact is that when Francis visited the United States, in September of 2015, he ordered the bishops to change course and get into step with him.
Enough with “preaching complicated doctrines,” with the “harsh and divisive language,” with “making the cross a banner of worldly struggles.”
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