Pope Francis chooses his successor

Even though he Has created the majority of Cardinals eligible to vote in the Conclave, Jorge Bergoglio may not be willing to let that Conclave assemble to take a decision on the next Pope.

 No, he wants to preserve his legacy and ensure the chines he implemented remain.  There is one way he could make those changes permanent - 

He just might choose to name his successor before he retires to join Father Ratzinger in The Old Popes Home in Rome until the first Pope Emeritus dies and then Bergoglio can return to the slums in the peripheries of Argentina.

It may be difficult to predict just what his replacement/ retirement text may read but I suspect it may be something like the following - he will name a replacement to take effect the day after he retires at some future specific date,  prolly three months upon the release of the text.

Dear Brothers and Sisters. At this most propitious time I ask all of us to remember to bless the Holy Ghost who has brought us all of these most wonderful blessings beginning with my election to the Papacy so that, finally, we could bring to fruition all of the blessings provided for in the Second Vatican Council.

From our treating of the Church as a field hospital to venturing out into the peripheries to starting the Synodal process, all of these initiatives are proof that the people of God are being faithful to the surprises of the Holy Ghost and yet who has not heard the excessive negativity and complaints from the  Pharisees who are anxious, some even praying, for my death so they can try to politically manipulate the conclave to elect a Pope who will take us back to the Dark Ages?

We know who these Pharisees are and what they love; they  loved it when the Church persecuted and tortured Galileo; they loved it when the Church still had Capital punishment and services in Latin; they loved it when the Church excommunicated reformers like Martin Luther; they loved it when The Church persecuted our Protestant brothers and sisters and they especially loved it when they sent Crusading Armies into foreign lands to kill Muslims who just wanted Religious Liberty. 

We can not go back. We will not go back. In the earliest days of the Church, Popes picked their successors which kept politics out of the process and The Holy Ghost has told me what I must do to secure the blessings of Vatican Two and stay free of  the poisonous politics of The Pharisees and so today I am naming ( full in the blank) as my successor and he will become Pope the day after I retire three months from now on (fill in the blank.) and May Good Bless his beautiful, peaceful, and loving Church in which all are welcome.

We are supposed to have a preferential option for the pope so what sense does it make to have clerics paying for flights from all over Hell and Half of Georgia just so they can vote?

Stay home brothers, I will name my successor, and we can same time and money and, as I always like to say,  time is greater than space.