Wikileaks cable on Bergoglio (now Pope Francis)
I know, this is probably too much to hope for -- but somebody at some point thought his being a Jesuit might have given him a "liberal streak."
http://americablog.com/2013/03/wikileaks-publishes-us-embassy-vatican-cable-on-bergoglio-aka-pope-francis.html
Those crazy kids. Wikileaks, of course, has a cable that the US Embassy-Vatican wrote about then-Cardinal Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, among other possible papal candidates, in 2005, shortly before Ratzinger was chosen to be the new pope.
SNIP
What could count against him is his membership in the Jesuit order. Some senior prelates, especially conservatives, are suspicious of a liberal streak in the order, perhaps most pronounced in the U.S., but also present elsewhere. Bergoglio is said to prefer life in the local Church as opposed to a bureaucratic existence in Rome’s ecclesiastical structures, but at the same time he has been willing to serve on the Vatican’s various supervisory committees. This could indicate an ability to bridge the curia/local church divide that splits the College of Cardinal Electors, making him a good compromise candidate.