Pope Francis to Create 16 New Cardinals.

Pope Francis has sowed a great deal of confusion during his papacy. From all the
“Pope on a plane” impromptu interviews to his official pronouncements, many (if not most) Mass-attending Catholics do not believe that the Church is heading in the right direction.

This will not help.

The National Catholic Register:

At his Aug. 27 extraordinary consistory — a meeting of all the world’s cardinals — Pope Francis is expected to create 16 new cardinals who will be electors, bringing the total number of cardinals who are eligible to vote for the next pope in a future conclave to 132. The Pope will also create four new cardinals who have already passed 80 years of age…

By the end of the consistory, 63% of the college will have been appointed by Pope Francis, with the remainder appointed by Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. John Paul II and Benedict XVI — as well as Pope John Paul I — were all appointed cardinals by Paul VI. Benedict XVI is the only surviving cardinal created by him.

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI returned to the long-standing tradition requiring a two-thirds majority to elect a pope; St. John Paul II had allowed for a simple majority for a valid election in the case of extended deadlock.

The good news is that when the Church is righted it will be evident that it was righted through supernatural means because it will not be man who does it. Honestly, nobody but God can right the Church now. Veering into globalism, socialism, and secularism, this Vatican requires God’s intervention to return it to its Christly mission.

Pray for the Church.