US Edition‘Papabile’ of the Day: Cardinal Pietro Parolin
- Cardinals will gather in Rome to elect the next Pope, with Cardinal Pietro Parolin considered a potential candidate.
- He serves as the Vatican's Secretary of State and previously advised Pope Francis.
- He helped normalize relations with Vietnam and negotiated a China agreement.
- He recently turned 70 and leads among bookmakers in Rome.
- His experience in Vatican affairs and global relations presents an advantage.
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Pietro ParolinItaly (70 years old)Worked in close collaboration with Pope Francis and was his Secretary of State. He is seen as a consensus candidate between progressives and conservatives, as he has been a diplomat of the Church for most of his life. He is considered a moderate priest, although when Ireland voted in favour of legalizing same-sex marriage in 2015, Parolin called the measure a “defeat for humanity.” Luis Antonio TaglePhilippines …
The Secretary of State is a natural candidate for Francesco's succession, to whom he has always been loyal, blunting his exuberance ...
Peter Parolin may be the candidate for the commitment, but there are several other names that are already being discussed by the cardinals. What's going on?
The Chinese factor also weighs on the Vatican. Pietro Parolin, outgoing secretary of state and favorite in all bookmakers to succeed Francis, knows it well. This forecast, widely shared also in the corridors of the Vatican, responds to a very widespread logic: the Italian cardinal would be a Pope of mediation par excellence. He would guarantee continuity with the Bergoglio era — it is one of the few that has remained throughout his pontificate —…
After the death of the high pontiff on April 21, the cardinals have the mission of selecting the successor of Francis in a next conclave with about 130 cardinal electors. While all of them could be elected as a pontiff, there are some with “greater” possibilities.
BFMTV asked ChatGPT to give him his prognosis about the identity of the next sovereign pontiff. According to Open AI's conversational agent, it will be the Italian Pietro Parolin, current number 2 of the Vatican. Cardinal Secretary of State obtains a probability of 27.6%.
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