CANADA
National Post
Joseph Brean | Feb 15, 2013
With Canadians in charge of the International Space Station and the Bank of England, the prospect one should also sit on St. Peter’s throne as Bishop of Rome and Pope to the world’s Roman Catholics no longer seems so far-fetched.
If early front-runner Marc Cardinal Ouellet does become the first non-European pope since an eighth-century Syrian, his papacy will reflect both the Church’s slow shift away from Europe, and the persistence of Benedict XVI’s dogmatic theology.
Common wisdom holds the former works for Cardinal Ouellet, the latter against him.
At 68, he is neither too old nor too young for the job, and even with all the traditional caveats about the uncertainty of Vatican Kremlinology, his odds — pegged by bookies at 7:2 — look good.
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