Will there be a Dutch pope again after 500 years? Cardinal Wim Eijk (71) is circulating on lists, but that doesn't say everything

Beloved abroad for his scholarship, but also criticized in the Netherlands for his conservative views: Cardinal Wim Eijk (71) is circulating on lists of possible successors to Pope Francis. But who exactly is this man from Utrecht and is there really a chance that we will get a Dutch pope? "Hopefully they will figure it out soon."

Now that the Vatican is in mourning after the death of Pope Francis, the papal conclave is starting again. The eyes of the world will be focused on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, hoping for white smoke. More than five hundred years ago, a Dutchman was put on the throne of Peter for the first time: a pontificate that was doomed to end in deep misery.