Clergyman speaks about choosing a pope
Posted March 3, 2013 1:51 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The College of Cardinals begins deliberations this week on who should succeed Benedict the Sixteenth.
A local clergyman answered questions about what goes into choosing the next Pope.
Monsignor Pedro Lopez-Gallo with the Archdiocese of Vancouver predicts the Cardinals will likely go with a much younger man than the 85-year-old Benedict, but he points out older popes can be agents of change too.
“John XXIII was 78 and in the four and a half years he was pope, he made a big revolution, so [in a] few years he did a lot of things.”
Among the leading hopefuls, is Quebec’s Marc Cardinal Ouellet, but Lopez-Gallo thinks College members will pick the man best suited to take the church into the future, and not just base their choice on geographic or racial considerations.
