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After Pope Francis passed away on Easter Sunday 2025 (may God rest his soul and keep his legacy), I wonder what strategies will the cardinals choose regarding his succession.
I wonder: will they pull another John Paul II? - 6a-john-paul-ii-was-the-third-longest-reigning-pope-not-by-accident-but-by-strategy
Now that authoritarianism and fascism is on the rise (globally too, but hey, greetings from Hungary), if the cardinals elect a young and healthy pope next who can be with the church for decades and decades, it will really set a course.
And I wonder what course it will be.
Related
- What do I mean by “pulling another John Paul II”? John Paul II was elected strategically as a relatively young, fit man for pope, to stabilise the Catholic Church with a long-reigning pope. 6a-john-paul-ii-was-the-third-longest-reigning-pope-not-by-accident-but-by-strategy
- I’m most familiar with Francis’s takes from Fratelli tutti and Laudato si’, and I’m for them. I need to get into Dilexit nos and Lumen fidei tho.
- It’s hard to move such a huge beast like the Catholic Church, but within the limits of the genre, I think he moved it into the right direction.
- A similarity between Queen Elizabeth II and John Paul II is that they both rose on the throne young and reigned for famously long, seeming like a constant of the world. Although Queen Elizabeth II had a long reign by accident, while her contemporary, Pope John Paul II had a long reign by design. 6a1-queen-elizabeth-ii-had-a-long-reighn-by-accident-while-her-contemporary-pope-john-paul-ii-had-a-long-reigh-by-design
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