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Something of a bombshell: A new book details how then Cardinal Ratzinger and Bertone sought to impose another "intervention" upon the Jesuit Order after the resignation of Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, SJ with Cardinal Bergoglio as its head. Bergoglio refused... religiondigital.org/_82f7d622
...and Kolvenbach protested. This had happened before, in the early 1980s, when John Paul II placed his own "delegate" to run the Jesuits after Father Arrupe's stroke. John Paul had been led to expect the Society's disobedience; instead he found Arrupe and the Jesuits obedient.
Thus, far from the way that he has sometimes been portrayed, Cardinal Jorge-Mario Bergoglio, SJ, was not the scourge of the Society of Jesus, but here its greatest supporter and defender.
A review of the book by the current Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Arturo Sosa, SJ: laciviltacattolica.it/articolo/i-ges…
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