No Francis II: Cardinal Prévost Didn’t Want to Irritate the Catholics
Don Pedro Vásquez, 82, an elderly priest from Chiclayo, Peru, the former diocese of Leo XIV, told the anti-Catholic ElPais.es why Cardinal Prevost “most likely” did not call himself “Francis II”.
He didn’t want to irritate the “conservative [= Catholic] cardinals”.
Don Vásquez has maintained a long ‘digital correspondence’ with Cardinal Prévost until a few days before the start of the Conclave through a messaging app.
“There was an understanding between us from the very beginning,” Vásquez said: “I've already seen him cry here” in Chiclayo because they had treated him “rudely” shortly after his arrival.
Vásquez calls Leo XIV a “scholar, intellectual, but very practical.” After eating, he would take his plate to the kitchen [not to the living room]; during the pandemic, he cooked [because he had no other choice].
During Covid “there were no oxygen machines in the area. In less than a week, he managed to have two machines …More