Scott, I’ll have to agree with Aegidius.Either the election of a Pope is political or it is lead by the Holy Spirit. While it is true that some countries will have a disadvantage on the political front (e.g. the US precisely because it is so influential now, Italy precisely because it was so influential in the past, the Global South precisely because it does not have a dominant representation in he college of cardinals, etc), if the current crop of cardinals are trying to follow God’s will rather than man’s, even these disadvantages can be overcome. In any case, such speculations are worth the sand they are written on since there are so many variables involved. |