PHILIPPINES
GMA News
EARL VICTOR L. ROSERO, GMA NewsFebruary 12, 2013
Some Vatican observers said Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, installed as a cardinal by the pope only last November, is one of the frontrunners to be the global Catholic Church’s next pope.
On Monday, 85-year-old German-born Pope Benedict XVI on Monday announced that he will resign on February 28, making him the first pope to do so in centuries.
Journalist John Allen Jr. of the United States-based National Catholic Reporter (NCR) has written extensively about the possible popes.
Even in 2011, when Tagle was not yet a cardinal and thus not yet eligible to become a pope, Allen already wrote that the Filipino priest was not only “a rising star in the Asian Church” but also a “papal contender.”
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