Going back to the pre-conclave meetings among cardinals, the Italian daily il Fatto Quotidiano said that yesterday that Honduras Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, has already left Rome with a sense of bitterness and disillusionment, 12 years after he contributed decisively to the election of Pope Francis.
The newspaper reported that at the general congregations he witnessed the unraveling of the pro-Francis alliance, with many former supporters of the pontiff now becoming, in his words, “turncoats.”
No longer an elector, Maradiaga took the return flight to Honduras, symbolically marking the end of an era and leaving behind a conclave where stabs at Bergoglio’s pontificate come from those who were chosen by him, the news outlet said.
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