Cardinal Angelo Scola Tipped As the Favorite to Succeed Benedict XVI
Chris Milesin
2/11/13
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Global Vatican watchers have tipped Milan Cardinal Angelo Scola as favorite to succeed Benedict.
I guess yet another Italian pope is just what the Catholic Church needs.
Pope Benedict XVI's successor will be named in March, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said Monday after the pope's shock announcement he was quitting February 28, ANSA reported.
"There will be a new pope in March" Father Lombardi said.
So who who is Scola.
1. After the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, Scola was considered to be among the papabili in the 2005 papal conclave. Sr?a Trifkovi? supported him vigorously in Chronicles because he saw him as the only man who might reverse what Vatican insiders see as the decay of European culture. The conclave elected Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI.
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Cardinal Angelo Scola Tipped As the Favorite to Succeed Benedict XVI
