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Pope Francis one step away from resignation. It is sensational indiscretion seeping from a Vatican source. Bergoglio is expected to leave the papal throne before December 31, 2020, leaving room for a new papal figure.
Pope Francis resigns before December 31, Vatican indiscretion
To report this news is the Express, which has collected the statements of Austen Ivereigh, former director of public affairs for the former Archbishop of Westminster. Ivereigh would be a prominent figure in the Pontiff’s circle. In fact, he would continue to work in Vatican circles and represents one of the most authoritative sources of information on the public and private life of Pope Francis.
In reality, according to the Express, Bergoglio would never have hidden the desire to resign before the natural expiration of his term, exactly as Pope Ratzinger did before him. “I don’t think there has been any doubt that he will resign in 2020,” the journalist said. “He made it clear from the beginning that he considered the resignation of Benedict XVI as an act of great modesty and would have no problem doing the same.”
Pope Bergoglio, now 83, in an interview with Mexican television in 2014, Noticieros Televisa, a few months after his election, had openly argued that his papacy would be short. No more than seven years. Exactly the time that has elapsed since 2013, when he ascended the papal throne. “I have the feeling that my pontificate will be short,” Bergoglio said in response to the South American journalist. “Four or five years. I don’t know, or two, three. Well, it’s been two. It is like a vague feeling, but I have the impression that the Lord makes me [qui] for a short time and no more ”.
The announcement in two weeks?
Based on this interview and rumors from the Vatican, Ivereigh maintains that the Pope will resign in a couple of weeks, at the end of the Christmas celebrations. It would be news that would shake the colonnade of San Pietro and open unpredictable scenarios for the future of the Church. the resignation of Pope Francis, in such a delicate historical phase, marked by the pandemic and the global economic crisis, it would leave vacant one of the most important religious ministries for all humanity. It is true that Bergoglio’s already advanced age (83 years), as well as his health conditions, the dangers of contagion from Covid and the tasks of his pontificate make the election of the pontiff to make way for a pope much less unlikely. younger.
