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Geopolitics and Papal Elections, by Daniel B. Gallagher – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Geopolitics and Papal Elections, by Daniel B. Gallagher

Saint of the Day for March 3: St. Katharine Drexel

March 3, 2025

Vice President Vance Deftly De-Escalates Conflict With Pope Francis at National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, by Peter Wolfgang

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By Daniel B. Gallagher, Crisis Magazine, March 3, 2025

Daniel B. Gallagher is a Lecturer in Literature and Philosophy at Ralston College. He previously served as Latin Secretary to Popes Benedict XVI and Francis at the Vatican.

If you have any doubt that geopolitics should play a role in papal elections, think of this: while choosing someone to step into the shoes of the poor fisherman from Galilee, the cardinals are also electing the head of a sovereign, juridical entity.

For all his towering theological acumen, Joseph Ratzinger was a very practical man. When asked by a Bavarian journalist in 1991 whether it was the Holy Spirit who chooses the pope, the then-Cardinal Ratzinger gave a down-to-earth answer:

I would say that the Spirit does not exactly take control of the affair, but rather like a good educator, as it were, leaves us much space, much freedom, without entirely abandoning us. Thus, the Spirit’s role should be understood in a much more elastic sense, not that he dictates the candidate for whom one must vote. Probably the only assurance he offers is that the thing cannot be totally ruined. …

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Geopolitics and Papal Elections, by Daniel B. Gallagher

Saint of the Day for March 3: St. Katharine Drexel

Vice President Vance Deftly De-Escalates Conflict With Pope Francis at National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, by Peter Wolfgang

By Daniel B. Gallagher, Crisis Magazine, March 3, 2025

If you have any doubt that geopolitics should play a role in papal elections, think of this: while choosing someone to step into the shoes of the poor fisherman from Galilee, the cardinals are also electing the head of a sovereign, juridical entity.

For all his towering theological acumen, Joseph Ratzinger was a very practical man. When asked by a Bavarian journalist in 1991 whether it was the Holy Spirit who chooses the pope, the then-Cardinal Ratzinger gave a down-to-earth answer:

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