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...moment, an initial duel appears to be shaping up between Germany's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and Italy's Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi. The former Archbishop of Munich, who for the past 23 years was Pope John Paul II's doctrinal watchdog, is being promoted by a swath of electors attracted to his traditional views, intellectual acuity and his knowledge of the Roman Curia. Once considered something of a firebrand, he is now seen by many as an ideal pick to carry out a "transitional" papacy after the 26-year reign of Wojtyla. Tomorrow is Ratzinger's birthday: He turns 78. Whether...
...TIME's Vatican expert consultant Giancarlo Zizola that the reformist wing of the College of Cardinals came into the pre-conclave period weak and particularly unprepared. And since the surprise momentum of the candidacy of Ratzinger - considered the symbol of the doctrinaire tendencies of the last pontificate - former Milan Archbishop Carlo Maria Martini, 78, has led an effort to scramble for a compromise candidate to oppose the German. Ratzinger as Pope, one source told Zizola, would amount to a "symbolic and institutional registering of the defeat? of the reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council. Tettamanzi, who succeeded Martini...
...Italian Cardinal worth watching is Carlo Maria Martini, the 78-year-old former Archbishop of Milan, who spends much of his time studying ancient texts in Jerusalem. Martini, a brilliant Jesuit scholar and inarguably holy figure, was once the great white-haired hope of the progressives for a successor to John Paul. Few believe he is still 'papabile'. When I caught up with him after the Pope's funeral, he smiled and shook my hand, but stayed mum. He has, however, been talking during the Cardinals' daily meetings, and Corriere reported today that he was listened to "intently...
...looking to see if an Italian consensus candidate exists. If one does not emerge in the early ballots, they'll begin to look elsewhere. On the basis of my conversations, I'd say the top three contenders remain Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, the Arcbishop of Milan; Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the Archbishop of Sao Paulo in Brazil; and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the head of the Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, who has been John Paul II's chief theological enforcer. Tettamanzi would probably be the leading Italian contender; Hummes would represent a turn to the developing world where...
...hours or days until it could straighten out the situation inside the Curia? The Rome bureau chiefs of news wire agencies and television stations lost sleep for fear of missing the historic news flash. Instead, Navarro's simultaneous email to the major news agencies at the same time that Archbishop Leonardo Sandri announced the news to the faithful in St. Peter's Square, worked seamlessly. And so John Paul's final act - dying in public - was as grandiose and universal as his life itself...