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Conclave to start March 11, future popes tipped to mirror Benedict

Published: March 03, 2013

With the papal conclave now set to start next Monday, March 11, reports Vatican Insider, future popes are likely to follow in the footsteps of Benedict XVI, Cardinal George Pell said in an interview, reports the Catholic News Agency.

“I think his pontificate will be typical of pontificates of the future,” said Cardinal Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney, in an interview with EWTN in Rome on Thursday.  

“I admire him for the decision that he took, but it does change the situation a little bit,” said Cardinal Pell.

Cardinal Pell reflected on the last Pope’s pontificate and the challenges facing the Church. “The world of the press is very powerful, coming often with quite a different and hostile agenda, but I think the Holy Father answered that challenge and I think he answered it well,” he said.

The cardinal, who travels to Rome frequently, said he knows “just how important it is for us to discern what the Spirit wants us to do and to get it right.”

“When I go into the conclave I’ll be thanking God that I’m not alone in making this decision,” he said. “I will be with 114 of us, all wise cardinals, with an enormous range of experience.”

“Many of them would have been through much tougher times than I ever have,” Cardinal Pell added.

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Conclave to start on March 11 (Vatican Insider)

Future popes will mirror Benedict, says Cardinal Pell (CNA)

 

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Recent Comments

  1. How brave is Cardinal Pell to predict that all future Pontificates will be like that of Benedict's.
    In what ways, and for what reasons? Had the Cardinal made those predictions before John XXIII, he would well have been wrong; similarly with JP11.
    One thing we do know, is that the Spirit blows where the Spirit will!
    We may all eventually be surprised despite the accumulated wisdom of all the Cardinals.

    Posted By: Garry

  2. Cardinal Pell: “I will be with 114 of us, all wise cardinals, with an enormous range of experience.”
    All wise?
    If that were correct, we would not have such disruption in the Church as we have today.

    Posted By: Pat Garner

  3. If Cardinal Pell's statement that all the Cardinals are wise is true, then why have so many victims of heninous clerical sexual abuse been so badly treated with terrible insensitivity and shocking scandal to our church. The spreading of the Good News has been severly comprimised, resulting in Catholics and all people of goodwill shocked and saddened.

    Posted By: Margaret M. Coffey

  4. Hopefully, amid all this speculation, we are praying that our prayers will finally express the will of God The Holy Spirit.

    Posted By: D. Davies

  5. Margaret: I guess Card. Pell's statement is not so true. Or maybe they are wise in some ways, but not in others.

    Posted By: Mark Taylor

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