The death of Pope Francis strengthened the debate in the public space and began the madness in the housing houses about who will be chosen in order to take the position of the top of the Roman and Catholic Church, most Christianity with more than 1300 million faithful in the world.
Among the 136 cardinals that will choose the future dad, that is, cardinals under 80 years old, the requirement imposed by the current rules of the Church, four Portuguese: D. Manuel Clemente, honorary patriarch Lisbon; D. Antonio Marto, Honorary Bishop of Lyria-Fatim; D. Jose Tolentino de Mendons, mayor of the savage in culture and education, and D. Amoerico Agiar, Bishop Setabal.
59 -Talentino de Mendons, the youngest among those who indicate the candidates for the leadership of the Vatican, was created by Cardinal Pope Francis in 2019, after Manuel Clemente (2015) and Antonio Marto (2018), but, according to Portugues, is the strongest candidate for a sedentary candidate Dad (in Italian) specialists of Cardinium Collegii, that is, cardinals with conditions get to the dadThis online platform combines an international and independent team of prestigious Catholic journalists and researchers who give information about the main candidates, although it indicates that it does not make a forecast about who can be the next pontiphon.
In Portugal, enthusiasm with a hypothesis of Tolentino de Manons will lead the Catholic Church recently, but the father of Jose Manuel Pereira de Almeid, the vice-director of the Portuguese Catholic University and who knows Cardinal Macheilens, puts water into a boil.
“This is unlikely”The priest speaks to Euroneus, making bets on the external face of Europe.
“My idea is that the choice will not fall into the European cardinal, From the evolution, which the Catholic Church itself had on other continents, such as in Africa and Asia, ”he explains.
In 2013, when Francis was elected dad after the resignation of Benedict XVI, the Cardinals of Europe were 56% of the total, but the choice of the Argentinean pontiff gave Africa, Asia and Oceania more weight, which had previously had 22 voters of cardinals for the sum of three continents. Jorge Mario Bergolo has appointed more than three bods of cardinals, which for 15-20 days will be attached in the Sistine Chapel, to the closed door and secretly elect a new dad.
The relations of forces in the next conclave provide a greater geographical diversity, when Europe is now 39% of the total – 53 voters from the old continent, 37 from America, 24 from Asia, 18 from Africa and four from Oceania. According to ECClesia, in 2013, 73 countries will be represented against 49 in 2013, and countries with the largest number of voters are Italy (17), the United States of America (10), Brazil (7), Spain, France and India (5 each), and more than a third of the total number.
“I would not love me if the next dad came from another continent, except in Europe”Repeats the Pereira de Almeida.
Too modern and progressive?
The Italian proverb is well known, according to which, “Who enters the dad in the Cardinal Conclave”Which could play in favor of Tolentino de Mendons, considered as a possible candidate for the continuity of Francisco, but not in the main grains of experts and players.
But in addition to the geographical factor, there is another Maxim, which further reduces the chances of the Portuguese cardinal. In the Vatican, it is preached that “The fat dad should always follow the subtle”What should be mentioned that the reformer must follow the conservative.
Talentino, recalls The team Cardinium CollegiiHe created a lot of controversy during his priestly life, especially approaches relating to heterodox and tolerant in the face of homosexuality, although Cardinal Mashiko never showed himself publicly against the teachings of the Church in this regard.
In addition, he did not joke for his popularity when he was combined with a Benedictine sister -feminist who promotes Aabortion, female ordination, “marriage” between the same sexual people and the adoption of children with homosexual pairsField
“For national translation, [Tolentino de Mendonça] This is the Minister of Education and Culture, which means that Catholic universities in the world, cultural and most significant aspects of episcopal conferences are under his care and, therefore, is A very good -to -citizen person, in the sense in which he is very thought, is very audible“, emphasizes the father of Pereira de Almeid.
Talentino de Mendons, who in mid -February even chaired the Sunday Mass in the Vatican, replacing Bergolo, then went to the hospital, Has prestige in the halls of the Holy See and was very close to FranciscoBut his liberal positions in an attempt to modernize the church can be more an obstacle than an advantage.
In the two millennia of Christianity, Joao XXI was the only Portuguese dadHe was a natural doctor from Lisbon, who had a pontificate of less than a year from 1276 to May and 1277.