AUSTRALIA
Goodiwindi Argus
By Catherine Armitage
Feb. 13, 2013
THE Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, agrees the idea of his becoming the next Pope is ”fantastic”, but he means fantastic in the traditional sense of fanciful, not the modern sense of terrific.
As election of the next pope approaches, ”some of the suggestions made will be simply fantastic”, Cardinal Pell said in an interview carried on the Sydney Archdiocese website on Tuesday. ”Some of them will be made to meet local demand for a candidate that they know.
”Will you be staying in Rome or would that be fantastic?” the archdiocese’s head of communications, Katrina Lee, asked. ”Of course I will be coming home,” he said, laughing.
The Catholic theologian Paul Collins agreed. ”I don’t think George Pell has any chance of being elected,” he said.
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