He's been packing the College of Cardinals with fellow commies. IIRC he also imposed a mandatory retirement age to aid the process. So it's highly unlikely that anyone more conservative will succeed him.
I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of cardinals that chose this one are still in the same positions, so it's very unlikely they'd choose a significantly more conservative pope.
He wasn't billed as a radical in public when he was first announced. If any of them expected him to sit the damned chair like his predecessors, they were not pleased with how he did it.
So a few questions:
He's been packing the College of Cardinals with fellow commies. IIRC he also imposed a mandatory retirement age to aid the process. So it's highly unlikely that anyone more conservative will succeed him.
You'd think if there was anything that didn't merit a mandatory retirement age, it would be something religious like this.
I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of cardinals that chose this one are still in the same positions, so it's very unlikely they'd choose a significantly more conservative pope.
He wasn't billed as a radical in public when he was first announced. If any of them expected him to sit the damned chair like his predecessors, they were not pleased with how he did it.