PHILIPPINES
Gulf News
By Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau Chief
Published: 13:49 February 21, 2013
Manila: Popular TV host and movie star Kris Aquino, the younger sister of President Benigno Aquino led Filipinos in promoting Manila Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as the next pope, a TV report said.
“I hope [that will happen],” Aquino told ABS CBN, adding, “It [having a Filipino Pope] might not happen in our generation yet, but we never know.” She added: “Let us not hope too much.”
Explaining the basis of her choice, the young Aquino said it would be good for all Catholics to have a young Pope. Tagle is only 55.
She also said that Cardinal Tagle officiated mass for the Aquino family last Christmas, after the two houses of Congress passed a controversial health bill that allows government subsidy for a family planning programme for the poor, including the use of ‘artificial’ family planning programme.
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