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Will Catholic cardinals pick another outsider like Francis to be pope?

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When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected in 2013 as Pope Francis, he was a near-total Vatican outsider. He had never been a Vatican official, instead spending decades in local ministry. And he came from Argentina, the first pope from the Americas.As the world's Catholic cardinals meet this week to discuss who should succeed Francis, the deliberations may boil down to a simple choice:Do they want another outsider? Or is it time now for an insider, someone more familiar with the Vatican's arcane ways of operating? "Pope Francis... shifted the Church's attention to the outside world," said John Thavis, former Rome bureau chief for the Catholic News Service, who covered three papacies."Some cardinals will now be tempted ...

Jerusalem Post     Apr 29, 2025