Despite the late Pope Francis’ decision to elevate many of his supporters to the Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals, Father Frank Pavone told Newsmax on Tuesday that he thinks the church will move in a different direction when it selects the next pontiff.

“I think that enough of these cardinals recognize the problems that have happened, that we will not get another Pope Francis,” Pavone said on “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “We won’t get another John Paul II, either. I believe that we’ll be somewhere in the middle. I believe that there will be a course correction. I think some of that is just human nature and the nature of the pendulum swinging politically in the church as it does in civic politics.

“I think there will be an improvement,” he said. “There has to be. There’s got to be clarification of the confusion Francis has caused. There’s got to be healing in the church. What about those who are devotees of the Latin Mass? There’s got to be restoration. People like me who have been victims of his weaponization. I think that, of course, there needs to be.”

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