Maybe Pope Francis has agreed to be validly consecrated.....
Now THERE'S a pipe dream if I've ever heard one.
It's not beyond the pale to question whether he really believes that episcopal consecrations per se are anything to be concerned with. Remember: "Who am I to judge?" If he thought he had been validly consecrated or that a valid consecration makes any difference at all, he would never have asked about his ability to judge something regarding faith or morals like he did there.
I asked a good priest if anyone knows: Who is Pope Francis' confessor? And his response floored me. But it woke me up.
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Pope Pius XII confessor was Fr. Bea, who was raised to a Cardinal by
JXXIII. He was the prime mover of Vatican 2. He was also a German Jєω.
See what Wikipedia says about him:
Impact and legacy[edit]
Bea was highly influential at the Vatican II Council in the 1960s as a decisive force in the drafting of Nostra aetate, which repudiated anti-Semitism. In 1963, he held secret talks with Abraham Joshua Heschel, promoting Catholic-Jєωιѕн dialogue.[3] John Borelli, a Vatican II historian, has observed that, "It took the will of John XXIII and the perseverance of Cardinal Bea to impose the declaration on the Council".[4] During a session of the Central Preparatory Commission, he also rejected the proposition that the Council Fathers take an oath composed of the Nicene Creed and the Anti-Modernist Oath.[5] After Alfredo Ottaviani, the heavily conservative head of the Holy Office, presented his draft of the schema on the sources of Divine Revelation, Bea claimed that it "would close the door to intellectual Europe and the outstretched hands of friendship in the old and new world".[6] He served on numerous ecuмenical bodies and was the author of nine works, including The Church and the Jєωιѕн People (New York: Harper & Row, 1966).
Bea was a confessor to Pope Pius XII for a short time. The encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu was very much shaped by Bea and Jacques-Marie Voste, O.P. (secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission).[7][8]
When Pius XII proposed appointing Bea to the College of Cardinals in 1946, Superior General Jean-Baptiste Janssens spoke out against it, as many felt the Holy See was showing preferential treatment to the Jesuits.[9] He had for some time, among his theological advisers, Jesuit priest Malachi Martin.[10] Among the other offices, Bea was a consultor to several Roman congregations.