What is the emerging Cardia as a competitor to replace Pope Francis?

After the funeral and nine days of mourning From Pope FrancisThe Catholic Church will be organized after that Good. The mysterious process, which is not open to the public, will take place in Sistine Church Subordinate Vatican city.

There, Cardinalisio College He will meet to choose the next church leader. The list, in force as of January 22, 2025, proves that there 138 voters a total of 252 Cardinals. Children under the age of 80 can participate in secret voting. Daily, four rounds of voting are made until the cardinal gets two thirds of the majority of votes. The process usually lasts between 15 and 20 days.

There are no rules about the duration of Conclave. In 1939, the flavor that chose Pope Pius XII continued only one day. Conclave the longest recorder in 1268 began in Viterbo, Italy, and It lasted nine years. he Pope Francisco He was chosen after five in two days, and the sixteenth and Penikt after four votes in two days. But who are the potential contestants this time?

Cardinal Peter Erdo

Erdo, 72, Archbishop Budapest Primado de Hungary, Chairman of the European Episcopal Conference Council, was elected in 2005 and 2011, indicating that he enjoys the appreciation of European Cardinals, which is the largest mass of voters. In this situation, Erdo met many African Cardinals, because the council organizes periodic sessions with African backed conferences.

Cardinal Reinhard Marx

Marx, the former head of the German Episcopal Conference, 71, was a steady defender of the controversial process of the “Synod” dialogue in the church GermanIn 2020, he started in response to the scandal of sexual assault on clerics.

Therefore, conservatives see this by doubt, because they considered the process a threat to the unity of the church, because it is implicit Discuss issues such as celibacy, homosexuality and women’s system. Marx was news in 2021 when he offered his resignation as a bishop of reforming the terrible history to offend the use of the German Church, but Francisco refused to resign and ordered him to stay in office.

Cardinal Mark Olit

Oullet, Canadian 80 years old, he directed the influential Vatican Bishop Office for more than a decade, as he supervised the main information exchange center for potential candidates to direct dioceses around the world.

Francisco Olit occupied the office until 2023, although he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI, and thus helped to choose most of the doctrinal bishops preferred by German ink. It is considered More reservation Francisco chose Olit the bishops with the pastoral mindset to reflect Pope Francis’ conviction that the bishops should “smell like a sheep” of his herd.

Cardinal Petro Parolin

Parolin, Italian 70 years, Foreign Minister Francisco has been since 2014 One of the main applicants To the papacy, given their emergence in the Catholic hierarchy.

The veteran diplomat A controversial agreement From the Apostolic Chair with China on the appointment of the bishops and participated, although it was not accused, in the failed investment of the Vatican in a real estate company in London that led to the trial in 2021 for other people and nine other people.

exembajador en venezuela, parolin Learn about the Latin American Church well. He will be seen as a person who will continue to imitate Francisco, but as a more realistic and shy diplomat, it was re -integrated by the Italian on the papacy after three successors: San Juan Pablo II (Poland), Benedict XVI (Germany) and Francesco (Argentina).

Cardinal Robert Brevost

Pope’s idea US It was a taboo for a long time, given the geopolitical power that the United States already carried. But Prevost, 69 born in Chicago, could be the first.

She has one Extensive experience in PeruFirst, as a missionary and then as the head of the bishop, who is currently governor of the strong integration of the Vatican bishops, responsible for examining the nominations of bishop all over the world. Francisco sent him to direct the Chickenu diocese, Peru, in 2014.

Cardinal Robert Sarah

Sarah, 79, from GuineaIt was removed from the Vatican Lotorgia office, and it was long considered hope for hope for the African Pope. It was Sarah that was estimated by the conservatives, and would return to the ideological and word Pabados in John Paul II and Bandicct Sixteenth.

Sarah, who was formerly directed to the Vatican Charity Office, Cor Onom, was Several clashes with Pope FrancisEspecially when he and Bob Benedict jointly wrote a book that defended the “need” of the continuous celibacy of the priests of the Latin rituals. The book was published while Francisco has described the possibility of allowing married priests in the Amazon to treat priests in the region.

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Cardinal Christophe Shonborn

Shonborn, 80, the head of the Vienna bishop, AustriaHe was Pope Benedict XVI demanded Thus, in theory, it appears to have the doctrinal academic ability to attract conservatives.

However, he was associated with one of the most controversial Pope Francis measures by defending him Approval to the divorced Catholics who married civilian As a “organic development of belief”, not like the separation that some conservatives have held.

Shonborn’s parents divorced when he was a teenager, so The issue is personal. He also received criticism from the Vatican in criticizing the former rejection of the Apostolic Chair of the Punishment of the High Sexual Assembly, including his predecessor as the head of Vienna’s bishops.

Cardinal Louis Tag

Reasoning, Filipina 67 years old, it appears to be the choice of Pope Francis as the first Asian Pontif. Francisco, head of Manila’s bishops, brought to Rome to direct the missionary missionary office in the Vatican, which meets the needs of the Catholic Church in most Asia and Africa.

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His role gained more importance when Francisco reformed the Vatican bureaucracy and increased the importance of the Bushra Office. Tagle is usually mentioned Chinese origin (His mother grandmother was affiliated with a Chinese family who moved to the Philippines) and she is known for exciting when talking about her childhood.