Power games of Bergoglians. Pentecost experienced as Good Friday.
The episcopal career of Monsignor José Cobo
The Community of Lanceros has had no other topic of conversation since last Thursday than the possibility of Auxiliary Bishop José Cobo becoming the next Archbishop of Madrid. Our correspondent in Rome over the weekend took it for granted.
Bishop Cobo (centre)
The clergy of Madrid celebrated this Pentecost as if it were Good Friday. They intensified their prayers for the future of the Archdiocese. They could not have imagined it. The question was what has happened for the bishop of the progressive minority of the Madrid clergy to take over the diocese for nearly twenty years at least.
Our correspondent in Rome recalls that for the last year Cobo has been seen too many times in Rome working the Pope's entourage. Under his arm he carried the reports against his archbishop, the archbishop who had made him Vicar, the one who had made him bishop against the majority opinion of those consulted on his appointment.
In the early days he had the backing …