Cardini is a maneuver before he was elected behind Francis

Even before Pope Francis entered a church in Rome on Saturday, conservative Cardinals who felt that Pontvicat was a divisive disaster that was subjected to church traditions on politics to influence the team on the next Pope.

They have a simple simple logo: unit.

It is difficult to imagine a less offensive rally, but in the ears of the most supportive of Francis, it rings as a symbol of the decline of the most comprehensive Francis vision of the Roman Catholic Church.

Fears are a clear sign of maneuvering by the ideological camps that are already taking place between the Cardinate as it gives the common field to the task that is looming in the vote for Francis in The Conclave, which is expected to start the first week of May.

The discussions that preceded the elections are likely to address whether the successor of Francis must push forward, or open it to the framework of possible women as a cash or some of the men of married men or make communication to divorced Catholics and marry them, among other issues deeply competing.

Indeed, the Cardinals were gathering in daily meetings behind the Vatican walls. Gerahard Ludwig Muller, from Germany, said he was coming out of the sandals he was wearing with black socks after one of these meetings in his studies lining up on books, one of the conservative Cardinal.

“It was necessary to talk about the division of the church today,” said Cardinal Muller, who was overthrown of the church’s doctrine in 2017.

Some progressive inside the church feel anxious that dozens of new Cardinals chosen by Francis all over the world will be less vascular to the Vatican and can be taken in the sweetness of the siren.

“This means reflection:” it looks really good, “said Cardinal Michael Cherni from Canada, who was one of the closest advisers of Francis.

“If you ask me,” How can you name the wrong path to capture? “I would like to say that the idea that unity is priority.” Unity cannot be a priority issue. “

Cardinals sit at the ends of opposition to the ideological gap. Those like Cardinal indicates a priority on another word: diversity.

“They are the two main words, diversity and unity, and there is a lot in playing to balance them,” said Reverend Antonio Spadaro, Undersecretary of the Vatican Office for Culture and Education, who was close to Francis.

He, like Francis, believes that the future of the Church lies in diversity. Francis chose dozens of new Cardinals formed outside Rome, and enabled local churches. Father Spadaro said that the trick was avoiding “freezing the church” to preserve loneliness, while he was heading towards prose and “division” in seeking to achieve diversity or progress that the church was not ready for.

“Francis maintains this very accurate balance and moved the church forward,” he said. He said the next Pope “also needs to keep the two together.”

That is why Cardinal Muller said, “We have to talk now.”

It is not a new topic for conservatives. “If we do not strive for unity,” said Cardinal Robert Sarah from Guinea at a seminar in 2024 in Kenya.

During Francis, Cardinal Sarah appeared as a central critic, and Francis stripped him of his official influence on the church mass. “If we offer rupture and revolutions, we are destroying the unity that governs the Holy Church throughout the ages.”

But the unit was essential to Francis’s vision of the church as well. He saw it differently. In 2021, Francis suppressed the celebration of the Latin Mass, which the Cardinal Sarah and other traditionalists adore, because he argued that he was using Catholics ideologically to undermine the unity of the church.

This decision encouraged conservative criticism only to Francis as a authoritarian. “This is his style of division,” said Cardinal Muller on Thursday in his apartment. “All dictators are divided.”

When Francis entered the subsequent stage of Pontefat, his progressive supporters expected to start making concrete changes. Instead, concerns about the unity of the church had pushed him to Pont.

When the bishops came from the remote areas in South America to the Vatican in 2019 to attend a large meeting that Francis wanted, they recommended, to address the deficiency of the clergy, the Pope should allow the older married Catholic men in a good position to become priests.

Francis gave every indication that this practical solution is what he wanted, but at that time, Cardinal Sarah participated in writing a book with a retired Bendict who reaffirms the priestly celibacy.

The Pope said that he needs more time to think about it, because the issue “has become an ideological and able to divide the church.” He said that Francis was not affected by Benedict, but the conservatives got a victory for unity.

Regarding other issues with the possibility of dividing the church, including allowing women to marina as a cash, and a ministerial role, Francis allowed a long discussion in the taboo but he did not make any decision in the end, saying that the case needs more study. The mobilization of the unit again breathed a sigh of relief.

And when Francis made a big change, with allowing, and even promotion, priestly guests for couples of the same sex, was a liberal in Europe and North America. But a great expression of the opposition from the church leaders in Africa, the place where many see the future of faith, forced it to retreat. For the sake of unity, Francis gave the Africans to spend an unspecified time to obtain the program, and to allow them mainly to withdraw.

Father Spadaro argued that the African sculpture was a “more revolutionary gesture” than measuring the actual gay blessings, “because it is legitimacy to pastoral pluralism.” He said that the Francis Road is to recognize cultural diversity and differences, within a unified church.

On the other hand, the Cardinal Muller considered the controversy, Francis’s efforts to make the bishops and the ordinary population gather to make decisions, to be deviations from the true church’s mission of defending its faith and revealing its reality to the world without taking into account popular competitions or policies.

He said: “This agenda is a gay gay and so on, and the female priesthood,” It is not the great questions of humanity. “

For other cruises who will vote in Conclave, unity is also important, but it means something different.

He said that the Cardinal Lazaros, you are Hyung Seick, South Korea, who led the Vatican Ministry of the clergy, “means, for me, the heart.” “Teach me that I should open my heart to love others,” said Francis.

After one of the general assembly meetings this week, Cardinal Claudio Ghoghotti, who served during the era of Francis as the governor of the Eastern Churches Office, said it was too early to discuss real issues so far. “We have to decide what to put it on the table and then discuss it,” he said.

For Cardinal Guezotti, Italian, which is sometimes mentioned as a potential successor to Francis, or as a royal maker on the side, “The unit is always a disaster.”

But he said, “It does not mean that everyone should say the same thing.” He added: “There can be a difference. Not an opposition, because this is destroyed.”