The archbishop of Milan accuses the Pope of not having appointed him cardinal: “he is from River”

None other than the archbishop of Milan, the diocese of the most important Church in the world, Monsignor Mario Delpini, has decided to protest because after four consistories, the last on August 27, the Argentine Pope insists that to maintain it without the coveted promotion to the cardinalate.

The Pope is an absolute ruler and his decisions are not discussed. The Church has completed more than two thousand years of a super centralized existence. Here because aroused amazement the darts hurled at him with bitter irony by the head of the Ambrosian church, which also has its own rite. The Vatican is silent.

Monsignor Delpini chose a frame suitable for his digressions that they should not do grace to Francis: the cathedral of Como, a city near Milan. The occasion was the feast of San Abbondio, patron saint of the city.

The celebration also served to pay homage to Bishop Oscar Cantoni, with whom the pontiff created a cardinal a week ago in the Vatican another nineteen new cardinals from all over the world.

After greeting everyone and congratulating the brand new Cardinal Cantoni from a much smaller and less important city than Milan, defined as the capital of the rich and industrialized north of Italy, Archbishop Delpino, pretending to be innocent, said into the microphone to the astonished faithful that It was necessary to answer those who wonder why the Pope preferred Como to Milan.

He said it is difficult to interpret Jorge Bergoglio’s thinking and evoked the saying “Not even the Eternal Father knows what a Jesuit thinks”, which is the order to which the Pope belongs.

Monsignor Delpini chose three reasons for his digressions with ridicule at the pope that provoked the first murmurs among the faithful. The first was that “the Pope must have thought that the archbishop of Milan already has a lot of work to do”. The second: “he must have thought that those ‘muds’ of Milan (he used the dialect expression ‘bauscia’) do not even know where Rome is and it is better not to involve them in the problems of the universal Church”.

The third reason was the most disconcerting, football. The archbishop said so the Pope is a ‘fan’ (fan) of River Plate, who has never won anything, “And then he thinks that the comaschi are more in tune because the ‘scudetto’ (the champion) is at Milan”. “The Pope suggests to Cardinal Cantoni that he side with the vanquished, with the weakest”.

With this irony, Monsignor threw the ball into the pipes. In Italy everyone knows that Pope Bergoglio is a San Lorenzo fan. Additionally, River is a highly titled team.

There is no doubt that the archbishop of Milan couldn’t take it anymore. Since the pope promoted him in July 2017, Delpini and many have wondered how the pope is systematically skipping Milan.

It is in fact the result of a double strategy that Jorge Bergoglio has implemented in his almost ten years of pontificate, which he will complete on March 13th. Turin, Venice, Naples, Palermo and Genoa were also seats of cardinals until the arrival of the Argentine Pope. Not now.

Instead they have a cardinal thanks to Bergoglio Ancona, Perugia, Siena, L’Aquila, Agrigento and now Como, considered minor office. Francis is also called the Pope of the suburbs, “geographic and existential”.

A fact that explains the current composition of the College of Cardinals, with the new presence of cardinals representing many new countries and dioceses revalued, which determines the displacement of previous powers and of the cities that are suffering decline.

The promotion strategy of the suburbs and the new faces were also a weapon that Francis uses to prevent the development of the traditional agreements of power that shared the main offices, imposing lines of power that conditioned the pontiff himself.