From Sandro Magister:
ROME, March 7, 2013 – The easiest bet is that the next pope will not be Italian. But not European, African, or Asian ether. For the first time in the bimillennial history of the Church, the successor of Peter could come from the Americas. Or to hazard a more targeted prediction: from the Big Apple.
Timothy Michael Dolan, archbishop of New York, 63, is a larger-than-life man from the Midwest with a radiant smile and overflowing vigor, precisely that “vigor of both body and mind” which Joseph Ratzinger recognized he had lost and defined as necessary for his successor, for the sake of properly “governing the barque of Peter and proclaiming the Gospel.”
In Benedict XVI’s act of resignation there was found already the title of the program of the future pope. And many cardinals were quickly reminded of the visionary vivacity with which Dolan developed precisely this theme, with his “primordial” Italian, his words, but scintillating, at the consistory one year ago, when he himself, the archbishop of New York, was preparing to receive the scarlet:
I disagree with this article’s take on Ouellet. I would not describe him as timid but courageous. I would also describe him as a leader, but one who has discovered through mistakes in being harsh how difficult it is when you have many of your priests against you. This is the thing that many critics of church leaders do not understand—you cannot just start excommunicating people, or hiving off this person or that —without risking outright schism.
A Brazilian reader sends us the following astonishing article published yesterday in the largest national daily, Folha de Sao Paulo: the official chosen by the Brazilian Conference of Bishops (the largest Conference of Bishops in the world) to advise the cardinals of that country in the conclave explicitly asked the media to print supportive articles on Cardinal Scherer, Archbishop of Sao Paulo. He is now clearly in open campaign in collusion with the media.
What signs are you seeing that the “media party” is trying to ensure it’s man gets elected Pope? Who do you think the media party’s choice is?
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Here’s something BIG about Papal Campaigning…. THERE’S ACTUALLY A FULL CAMPAIGN JINGLE MUSIC VIDEO OF CARDINAL TAGLE IN YOUTUBE! The title is “Cardinal Tagle, Our Next Pope” You gotta check it out. It’s a first in history!!
I forgot to mention…THE TUNE OF CARDINAL TAGLE’S CAMPAIGN JINGLE…IS THE YMCA SONG!