Care needs taking in interdenominational contrasts as your point can be dissipated. The gent about whom the pontiff had been asked, who was perpetuating a predation in a lift (elevator), was up to his neck in manoeuvrings such as will continue without Bergoglio as they continued before him. And did the question asker also have someone additional in mind? Bergoglio's remark only works apart from such context.
He knows how to cope with climbing the greasy pole (a genuine virtue) as you pointed out. His opponents overload the case against him and spread themselves too thin (beyond worries that didn't come to your notice) because they too are company men. I too am of multi religious background but learned the hard way how to make good use of that.
The thing that compromises protestants and catholics alike is their sacrament / ordinance codependency: it only seems to matter how they dress that up. After another fairly recent prominent pontiff ramped up the proxy war between boys and girls (assisted by Holy Spiritless "Moral Majority" leadership) there are easy apparent wins.
Care needs taking in interdenominational contrasts as your point can be dissipated. The gent about whom the pontiff had been asked, who was perpetuating a predation in a lift (elevator), was up to his neck in manoeuvrings such as will continue without Bergoglio as they continued before him. And did the question asker also have someone additional in mind? Bergoglio's remark only works apart from such context.
He knows how to cope with climbing the greasy pole (a genuine virtue) as you pointed out. His opponents overload the case against him and spread themselves too thin (beyond worries that didn't come to your notice) because they too are company men. I too am of multi religious background but learned the hard way how to make good use of that.
The thing that compromises protestants and catholics alike is their sacrament / ordinance codependency: it only seems to matter how they dress that up. After another fairly recent prominent pontiff ramped up the proxy war between boys and girls (assisted by Holy Spiritless "Moral Majority" leadership) there are easy apparent wins.