After a week of flavor, who are the favorite Cardinals to be the next Pope?

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On May 7, 133 voters will be closed at the Vatican Cystin Caller The preferred secret process for the next Pope. Although many of this process are surrounded by mystery, it is known that they are celebrated Four daily voting rounds Until the Cardinal A Two -thirds of the majority From the voices. The process usually lasts between 15 and 20 days. In the absence of a week to start the side, what is the emerging Cardinis as “ropeable” to guide the Catholic Church?

Cardinal Petro Parolin

This was the seventy year of veteran Pope Francis Minister of StateWhich mainly makes it the Prime Minister of the Holy See. Although it is closely related to Pontificate from Pope FranciscoParoline is more amazing in his personality and diplomats in his leadership approach than Argentine Jesuit, which served, and knows where the Catholic Church may need a way of course.

The Conditioner supervised the controversial agreement of the Apostolic Chair with China Regarding the appointments of the bishops and participated, although he was not accused, in the Vatican investment scandal in a real estate company in London, which means losing millions of euros.

Pope Benedict XVI, who was appointed Cardinal, knows the Latin American Church well and played a major role in Back between the United States and Cuba In 2014, the Vatican helped facilitate it.

Although he is ancient warriors in the Vatican, he has Very little pastoral experience. He entered the symposium at the age of 14, four years after his father’s death in a car accident. After coordinating in 1980, he spent two years as a hatred near his hometown, in northern Italy, but then went to Rome to study and enter the diplomatic service in the Vatican, where he remained since then. If chosen, I will return to Italian after three successive “strangers”: Juan Pablo II (Poland), and I will see the sixteenth (Germany) and Francesco (Argentina).

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tajil

Tagle, 67, appears on the lists of many contestants in the bet to be The first Asian PopeElections mean recognition of part of the world where the church grows.

Pope Francis brought to Rome, the head of the famous bishop ManilaThe Cardinal was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI, to direct the Victory Bushing Bureau, which meets the needs of the Catholic Church in most Asia and Africa.

His role gained more weight when Pope Francis reformed the Vatican bureaucracy. Although he has a pastoral experience, Vatican and management young man To choose Baba, since the Cardinate They may prefer an old candidate for whom Papal more limited. However, Tagle is known as a good connection and a good teacher, and the main features of the Pope.

Cardinal Faridin Ambono Bisongo Pyong

Ambongo, 65, is appointed by Cardinal by Pope Francis, is one of the most explicit Catholic leaders in AfricaAt the head of the diocese, which has the largest number of Catholics on the continent, which is the future of the Church.

Es Head of the Archbishop of the Capital of Congo Since 2018 and Cardinal since 2019. Pope Francis has also appointed him as a member of a group of advisers who were helping to reorganize the bureaucracy in the Vatican. In the Congo and throughout Africa, Ambongo was deeply committed to the Catholic Orthodoxy and considered conservative.

In 2024, a statement was signed in the name of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar in which he refused to follow the statement of Pope Francis, who allowed the priests. Barakat offer for the same couples SexIn what was Opposition At the continental level of papal teaching. The reprimand on the African Church line crystallized on the posting LGBTQ+ and Ambongo’s standing within the African hierarchy.

Cardenal Matteo Zupi

Zupi, 69, as a priest on the street In the image of Pope FrancisThis quickly ascended. The first president of the rich Archbishops of Bologna, in northern Italy, in 2015, before the Cardinal title was awarded in 2019. He largely belongs to the Santalgelogy community, a Rome -based Catholic Catholic Organization that was influential during the era of Pope Francis, especially in the average dialogue.

Zupi was part of the Sant’egidio team that helped negotiate the end of the civil war in the 1990s and was appointed Peace envoy From Pope Francis to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Travele Kyiv and Moscow After the Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenski, asked the Apostolic Chair to obtain the release of 19,000 Ukrainian children separate from their families and transfer them to Russia during the war. The mission also took China and the United States. Zupi will be a candidate in the traditions of Pope Francis in the service of the marginalized, although it is The relative youth can play against it For the cruise, they are looking for a short papal.

Peter Cardinal Forest

Known by his colleagues as a name Theologian, researcher and serious teacherErdő, 72, is one of the main applicants among the conservatives. He is the head of the Esztergom-Boudapest since 2002 and has been appointed Cardinal by John Paul II the following year.

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He participated in two disputes, in 2005 and 2013, to choose the Pope Benedict and Francisco. PhD in theology and ecclesiastical law, Erdő, speaks Six languagesHe is a supporter of ideological Orthodoxy and defends church sites in issues such as abortion and the same sex.

forest He opposes homosexual unions The suggestions have also resisted that Catholics who marry after divorce can get the company. In 2015 he announced that Catholics absolute They should only communicate if they maintain sexual abstinence in their new marriage.

Defender Traditional family structuresHe helped organize the Vatican meetings for the year 2014 and 2015 for Pope Francis on the family. Although he avoided participating in the troubled Hungarian political life, Erdő has maintained a close relationship with the right -wing government in the country, which gives generous benefits to Christian churches. However, it has been shown He hesitates to adopt situations In many government policies that divided the Hungarian society, such as public campaigns that distort migrants and refugees and laws that have eroded the rights of LGBTQ+societies.