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The Globe and Mail
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The Globe and Mail
As cardinals from around the world gather in Rome for closed-door meetings before choosing a successor to Benedict XVI, Canada’s Marc Ouellet is reluctantly acknowledging that he has to be prepared for the possibility that he could become the next pontiff.
In an interview he gave to the CBC, Cardinal Ouellet was asked about the fact that he is considered a front-runner to be the next successor of Saint Peter.
The 68-year-old Quebecker paused and had a long sigh before answering cautiously.
“I have to be ready even if I think that probably others could do it better,” Cardinal Ouellet said. “We have to be, to some extent, prepared.”
He alluded to the old saying that the man who enters the conclave already anointed pope is usually the one who will leave still a cardinal.
“My name is circulating, but I am very careful to go beyond this sort of media expectations.”
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