Cardinal Versaldi: “The poisons are there but now we must eliminate them. The favorites may have surprises from the Conclave.”

“I think it is an open conclave, in the sense that there is no natural successor or at least no cardinal who is clearly favorite,” he said a few days ago to The New York Times Massimo Faggioli. The Italian theologian and professor of history at Villanova University, in the United States, is one of the academics who have studied the pontificate of Jorge Mario Bergoglio most. In 2020 he published The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis, where he puts i…

The high prelate is 81 years old and will not enter the Sistine: “The time for the election will not be long. Pope Francis had started renewal paths that were still open.”