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A golden possibility
« on: March 16, 2013, 09:55:07 AM »
By Manila Standard Today | Posted on Mar. 16, 2013 at 12:01am





It was good while it lasted.

More than that, it was almost like a miracle. Hope burned in the hearts of Filipino Roman Catholics, and they stormed the heavens with prayer. A Filipino cardinal almost became the leader of 1.2 billion Catholics all over the world.

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the 55-year-old Archbishop of Manila and the second youngest papabile, could have become the first pope from Southeast Asia.

It was good enough that a Filipino was a papabile among the 115 cardinals from various parts of the world who converged in Rome for the conclave to elect the successor of Pope Benedict XVI. This brought considerable honor to the country.

The possibility of a Filipino becoming pope stirred pride in the hearts of many Filipinos, and many Catholics hope it could lead to some kind of renewal for the highly politicized church.

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Re: A golden possibility
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2013, 09:55:28 AM »
In the days leading to the secret balloting at the Sistine Chapel, Vatican insiders said the Cardinals would vote according to their conscience. Nobody ruled out the power play, vested interests and Machiavellian maneuvers to get the two-thirds vote to elect the new pope.

According to press reports, the conclave was divided between those who worked in the Vatican and the reformers, who wanted the next Pope to address the corruption, inefficiency and reluctance of those in the Vatican to share power and information with bishops from around the world.

Analysts said they would  not be surprised if members of a powerful faction, the so-called Benedict faction, who owe their red hats to the resigned pope, would pull a surprise because they made up more than half of the voters. Nobody knows, as yet, whether some of these predictions came to pass.

Tagle has gained a reputation in the Vatican as “a man of the people,” a good theologian who was close to Benedict. Novaliches Bishop Emeritus Teodoro Bacani said the country would explode with joy if Tagle emerged on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica when the cardinals declare “Habemus Papam (We have a pope) and white smoke billowed out of the chimney on top the Sistine Chapel.

But it was not Tagle’s time to wear the white robe and red shoes.

Nonetheless, Filipinos savored the mere possibility. These moments will go down in Philippine history as the year when a Filipino cardinal almost became a pope.

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