The Archbishop has never been a fan of Pope Francis. That is true of most Argentine clerics, perhaps one of the reasons the Pope has never visited Argentina.
He Knows the Pope
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
He was removed on his 75th birthday and told to move out the next day. Luckily he was able to find somewhere to stay.
I think we have a lot in common with Argentina.
Is there a story about that? Why does it appear that Pope Francis would not be welcomed back to Argentina?
When he was a young man the Pope rose to a fairly high position in the Argentinian Jesuits. He fell from that position in somewhat obscure circumstances bit it boiled down to him being autocratic. After that he was never popular among his fellow Jesuits and he was a marked man, which made his rise to Bishop and Cardinal peculiar.
I think his rise to bishop and cardinal was partly a matter of “get rid of a problem cleric by kicking him upstairs” and partly Pope John Paul misjudging the situation, thinking that if the Jesuits, who were generally running off the rails at the time, were complaining he was autocratic (“rigid”?) then he would probably make a great Church leader!