Pope Francis said some cardinals used him to try to prevent the election of Pope Benedict XVI.
He credits his predecessor with laying the groundwork for later reforms.• Pope Francis said in a newly released interview that he backed his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, at the conclave that elected Benedict pope in 2005 — despite the efforts of some cardinals to hijack the election.
“The idea was to block the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,” Francis explained. “They were using me, but in the meantime, they were already thinking about proposing another cardinal. They had not yet agreed on who, but they were ready to throw out a name.” In the book, Francis said he warned the cardinals who were backing him to not “fool around” with his candidacy, adding that he would not accept the role of pontiff were the scheme to backfire and actually gain him sufficient votes. He told the interviewers that Benedict was his candidate because, after the charismatic papacy of John Paul II, the church needed someone “who maintained a healthy balance, a transitional pope.
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