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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Shaken, not stirred?
I'm not Catholic and would not argue this, but I've heard and read over quite a few years that the next Pope will almost certainly be Italian because, while the Cardinals are somewhat diverse, the Italians are a majority and the political support folks in the Vatican are as well.
Don't know if that's true, but it's as good as any other theory I suspect.
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(I'm not Catholic either, but the politics involved in the College of Cardinals is entertaining to me)
Latin America has somewhere btwn 20 & 25 percent of cardinals under 80 (voting for new pope expires when you turn 80), so there's a probability that a bloc may form with the Latin American cardinals and 3rd world cardinals like those from Nigeria, Vietnam, etc. and a pope from outside Europe could be the end-result.
ETA: I think Italy has only a 15% voting-cardinal bloc.
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