Murphy-O�Connor had been dismayed when Pope Benedict XVI was elected at the previous conclave and was determined to avoid another conservative Pope.
Source/Credit: The Telegraph UK
By Robert Mendick | September 3, 2017
It is a tale every bit as intriguing as the plot of Conclave, Robert Harris�s best-selling thriller set during a fictitious papal election.
For it has emerged that Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O�Connor, the former Catholic archbishop of Westminster who died last week, intervened in the last Conclave to ensure his friend was elected Pope Francis.
In the days before the 2013 vote, Murphy-O�Connor co-hosted a reception at the British embassy in Rome to lobby support for Cardinal Bergoglio, the then progressive archbishop of Buenos Aires.
According to a new book, Murphy-O�Connor invited cardinals from the Commonwealth but deliberately left off the invitation list two powerful but conservative clerics - Cardinal Ouellet from Canada, who had been a frontrunner, and Cardinal Pell from Australia.
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