CANADA
CP24
The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013
MONTREAL — Word that a Canadian cardinal is a presumed contender to succeed Pope Benedict has been met with a mixed response in his own Quebec backyard.
Advocates for victims of sexual abuse by priests and even a member of the clergy aren’t quite in Marc Cardinal Ouellet’s cheering section.
The idea of a global icon emerging from here has stirred the local imagination.
But that excitement is tempered by the fact that Ouellet’s home province has become intensely secular and even anti-clerical over the years.
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