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Rorate Caeli (Blog): The Vatican Is Now in Utter Chaos, As Was Foreseeable – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Rorate Caeli (Blog): The Vatican Is Now in Utter Chaos, As Was Foreseeable

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By The Wanderer (Rorate Caeli), Argentina, April 23, 2025

Shortly after the death of Pope Francis, the Vatican was a hornet’s nest, in every sense of the expression. In other words, it was and is chaos. It could not be otherwise when those who are at the head of the most delicate mechanisms of the Church are useless people placed there at the whim of the tyrant.

The first major problem faced is the location. Bergoglio’s decision not to reside in the Apostolic Palace, because he was very humble as we all know, and to settle down in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, generated a difficult atmosphere: gossip, comings and goings of journalists, powerful people with briefcases full of money, etc. More out of necessity than taste, Francis modified the original structure of the Domus, planned by John Paul II as a residence for the cardinal electors during the conclave and hotel or lodging for prelates during the rest of the time. As the reigning Pope lived there, entire floors were reserved exclusively for him, with important structural adaptations and the fixed permanence of collaborators and prelates close to him …

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