He played a crucial role in restoring relations between the Holy See and China, and the signing of an agreement to jointly appoint the Chinese bishops with Beijing. Moderate, considered progressive by his detractors, he assumed a disproportionate role during the Pope’s disease, leading the prayer session for his recovery, which was considered by some as an inconvenient campaign offer.
Paroline is however considered too bureaucratic and devoid the charisma and the common touch of the late Pope. This could be an Achilles heel, in parallel with a lack of pastoral experience.
Some already hope to destroy any offer of Parolin and, according to who you are talking to, it is considered a Trojan horse for progressivism or conservatism.
The report of the College of Cardinals, an examination of the positions of the cardinals compiled by the conservative journalists Edward Ploutin and Diane Montagna, presents it as a “subtle” progressist capable of putting a turn on the radicalism of Francis. A more progressive church official, on the other hand, told Politico that Paroline is “a very humble and very sweet person, but because of his sweetness, people do not see that he is much more conservative than the Pope”. The manager suggested that Francis had started marginalizing the paroline in the midst of “whispers” around his possible conclave offer.
Another Italian possibility is the cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, of Lombardy, who is the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem. The 60 -year -old man may well benefit from nostalgia among Italian cardinal colleagues on the fact that one of his compatriots in the first job. Pizzaballa – who has lived in the Holy Land for more than three decades, speaks Hebrew and admitted that he said to Hamas “out of necessity” – is an authority in the Middle East, which could be an advantage.
Given as Frank’s word, he quickly accelerated in the ranks thanks to views aligned with Francis on environmental protection and interreligious dialogue. He largely remained away from public disputes in the church of the doctrine of the Church, which makes him an unknown quantity, but the conservatives are not too hostile to him because he supports Latin mass.
However, it is a bit young to be the pope, because the cardinals hesitate to elect a leader who is likely to stay for several decades.
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