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By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Jan 27, 2023
If you are looking forward to the next papal election, you are not alone—but you are overwhelmingly likely to be a Catholic who accepts everything the Church teaches. If this describes you, you may also be worrying about whether Pope Francis has changed the complexion of the College of Cardinals sufficiently to elect a clone, which may cloud your expectations. But on that score, at least, you needn’t worry. Papal elections have never been predictable in the same way that political elections are.
Moreover, from a purely human point of view, whatever else he has done, Pope Francis has favored the creation of third-world cardinals. It is one of the secular liberal myths of our time that the third world is the ideological ally of secular liberals. …
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Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.