Fr Hunwicke offers a wonderful quote from Henry Sire's The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy.
From Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment
The Times includes, among its Book Reviews on Saturdays, a suggestion about a book which is no longer hot-off-the-Press but is well worth a reread.
In this spirit, I offer a book by the learned former Official Historian of the Knights of Malta, the acute and lucid Henry Sire [pronounced Seer].
'Former' because, under this Parrhesia pontificate, he was, unaccountably, expelled from the Order.
The Dictator Pope The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy. Regnery Publishing.
A taster:
"Since Father Bergoglio, as a Jesuit, would need a dispensation to be appointed [bishop], it was necessary to obtain a report from his order, for which Cardinal Quarracino applied in 1991. It was provided by the Jesuit general, and it represents the most damning character study of Jorge Bergoglio composed by anyone before his election as pope. The text of the report has never been made public, but the following account is given by a priest who had access to it before it disappeared from the Jesuit archive: Father Kolvenbach accused Bergoglio of a series of defects, ranging from habitual use of vulgar language to deviousness, disobedience concealed under a mask of humility, and lack of psychological balance; with a view to his suitability as a future bishop, the report pointed out that he had been a divisive figure as provincial of his own order. ..."
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