Cardinal Martini and Pope Francis - The Dream Come True ?


 "Seven months after the election as Pope of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the interpretations of the beginning of this pontificate are contrasting.

Within the Church the judgments most positive, if not enthusiastic, on the first acts of Pope Francis are coming from the supporters of the cardinal who for years represented, with great authoritativeness and widespread consensus, the most clear alternative approach to the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI.




That Cardinal was Carlo Maria Martini, a former director of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, archbishop of Milan from 1979 to 2002, who died on August 31, 2012 after having left his instructions in an interview that was also very critical, published immediately after his death as his “spiritual testament”:"

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which is an English translation of the original article in Italian.


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