In a new book about his relationship with his predecessor, Benedict XVI, Pope Francis says he was used in a “maneuver” to block Benedict’s election in the 2005 conclave, but that he resisted and voted for Benedict himself. “The idea was to block the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,” he says in The Successor, which will be released today. “The maneuver consisted of putting my name in, blocking the election of Ratzinger, and then negotiating a different, third candidate,” Francis says. Fellow cardinals informed him later “that they did not want a ‘foreign’ pope.”