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gopiscrap

(24,385 posts) Tue May 6, 2025, 01:24 PM May 6

Who is it gonna be? [View all]

tomorrow the cardials begin to choose the next Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The main contenders from each of the idealogical bases are:

Cardinal Erdo reactionary very conservative Cardinal from Hungary

Cardinal Tagle progressive leaning Cardinal from the Phillipines

Cardinal Parolin middle of the road current Vatican Secretary of State

other (name him)

18 votes, 2 passes \| Time left: Unlimited
	Parolin
	2 (11%)
	Erdo
	1 (6%)
	Tagle
	11 (61%)
	other
	4 (22%)
	2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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Who is it gonna be? [View all] gopiscrap May 6 OP

Haven't a clue, but Francis did stack the deck with a majority of cardinals Ocelot II May 6 #1

The vast majority of Cardinals were appointed by Francis. That doesn't we'll get another Francis, but themaguffin May 6 #2

However, all of the Cardinals that voted for Pope Francis were appointed by the previous two conservative Popes Polybius May 6 #6

Anyone but the Hungary guy! Initech May 6 #3

Would be Pope Ratzo on steroids EYESORE 9001 May 6 #4

They're going to go with whoever is the least controversial. LudwigPastorius May 6 #5