A Contender for the Papacy Known for Promoting Dialogue With Other Faiths - Overpasses For America

A Contender for the Papacy Known for Promoting Dialogue With Other Faiths - Overpasses For America

Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of Marseille, France — considered a contender to be the next pope — has been jokingly referred to for years as John XXIV. He owes the nickname to his physical resemblance to the stocky, amiable former church leader, Pope John XXIII, who was a hero to many liberal Catholics for his efforts to open the church to modernity. Now the cardinal’s supporters hope that nickname was prescient. “I think he would be a great pope,”…