PHILIPPINES
Sun.Star

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

MANY Filipino priests and bishops are hoping that Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, who is second among the youngest cardinals, will have an equal chance to be elected as the next pope.

The 117 Cardinals from all over the world, including Tagle, will arrive Thursday and start converging in the Vatican for the conclave, an election of a new Pope after Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation takes effect Thursday, February 28, 2013.

Msgr. Rey Manuel Monsanto, vicar general of the archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro and parish priest of Nazareno Church, said all Cardinals are candidates as anyone of them can be elected.