Perhaps the archbishop of New York. Or that of Boston. In the
footsteps of Benedict XVI, moreover with the lash against mismanagement
in hand. But the curia is resisting and counterattacking, bringing
forward a Brazilian cardinal in its trust
By Sandro Magister
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| Timothy Cardinal Dolan |
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:
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:
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Please read Vatican Insider,6 Mar. 2013,'Cardinal Rai, 'The Conclave From A Middle Eastern Perspective' .
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