VATICAN CITY
Tuscaloosa News
By MICHAEL WARREN
Associated Press
Published: Monday, March 4, 2013
Both are the sons of Italian immigrants. Both are doctrinal conservatives. And both are known for their warm personalities.
But the two Argentine cardinals widely given an outside chance to become pope have had very different careers.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who would be the first Jesuit pope if chosen, has spent nearly his entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and shoe-leather priests. Leonardo Sandri, who left for Rome 42 years ago, is a Vatican insider who has run the day-to-day operations of the global church’s vast bureaucracy and roamed the world as a papal diplomat.
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