The SCARY Thing About This Article?

This… mook… was apparently considered papabile.

More evidence that the Holy Spirit does, indeed, watch out for the Church…

God gave us free will, free minds, free hearts. Might be nice if Cardinal Arinze went back and swotted up on his Aquinas. Or renewed his acquaintance with the Gospels, for that matter. Jesus was content, even on the Cross, to pray for his enemies — who were doing a sight more than telling lies about him, at that point — rather than summon the angelic hosts to destroy all who had crucified him.

GAHHHH.