ElWanderer.com (March 7) joins the commentators on who the 137 Cardinals will elect as the next Pope. Key points
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No Latin American cardinal will be elected, nor anyone from the
peripheries. The amusement of those, who wanted to experiment with a man
from the end of the world in 2013, cost the Church dearly.
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That is why the Filipino Cardinal Tagle, even if the progressive media
consider him papabile, does not have the slightest chance. Neither do
any of the other exotic specimens that Bergoglio dressed in red.
- The North American and European cardinals are then in the running.
- Archbishop Francis Leo of Toronto, Canada, is only 53 years old.
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Cardinal Lacroix of Quebec, Canada, carries with him an accusation of
sexual abuse that, although dismissed, forced him to leave his post for
six months. It is not the time to play with fire.
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profiles that fit in one sector or another, such as Timothy Dolan of New
York, or Blase Cupich of Chicago. But the conclave will not elect an
American cardinal in the circumstances in which Donald Trump has assumed
such a leading and disruptive role throughout the world.
- Another Jesuit will never be elected, so Hollerich of Luxembourg is ruled out.
- Giogio Marengo, 50, of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is too young.
- So is the Italian Pierbattista Pizzaballa, 59, Patriarch of Jerusalem. [ElWanderer may be wrong about him and it would be time to find out more about his weaknesses.]
- Juan Omella, 78, of Barcelona, is too old.
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Tolentino de Mendonca, 59, Dicastery for Education, is too boring and
too intellectual [He is accused of being homosexual in his home country,
Portugal].
- Anders Arborelius, 75, is too exotic, since Sweden falls, for the Church, into this category.
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So we are left with Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State; Matteo Zuppi,
Archbishop of Bologna, and Jean-Marc Aveline, Archbishop of Marseille.
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Pietro Parolin would be a good candidate, but he can easily and rightly
be blamed for Bergoglio's colossal mistakes. He can be a powerful
kingmaker and steer the votes to Cardinal Claudio Gurgerotti, 69, as both belong to the school of the late Cardinal Silvestrini (“Ostpolitik” of Cardinal Casaroli).
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Matteo Zuppi, although he does not have the physical appearance suited
for the role, would be the ideal candidate for progressivism and,
curiously, also for many traditionalist circles. He is a coherent
liberal: with him there would be room in the Church for everyone,
everyone, everyone, and not for Bergoglio's selected few. But the Sacred
College will not elect an open enemy of Trump.
- The group of openly non-Bergoglian cardinals has no chance of being elected.
- But these Catholic Cardinals
will form, together with the conservatives, a third blockade that will
force, after several days of attempts, the election of a compromise
candidate.
- One of them could be the Hungarian Péter Erdö, 72,
or someone else [Pizzaballa, Gurgerotti] who would emerge unexpectedly,
as was the case with Wojtyla, who settled the dispute between Siri and
Benelli (1978).
- A short election would mean that the blocking
third did not work and that a cardinal with a high intensity of
Bergoglianismo in his blood would be elected.
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