Cardinal Odilo Scherer, the Brazilian close to the Curia who was already considered papal

The Archbishop of São Paulo, the Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, assumed the greatest archdiocese of South America in 2007 catapulted for his reputation as a good administrator and his closeness to the Curia, and became considered papal in 2013. At that time, when there was pressure to choose the first non-European pope, he was praised for representing the country with the greatest number of Catholics in the world, for its good articulat…