“As of June 2, the cardinal-electors appointed by Pope Francis have the necessary two-thirds majority for choosing his successor. But are they really a like-minded group?”
“Rather, they respond to the pope's expectation that men from the peripheries of the Catholic Church should participate in the next conclave. This is true, for example, of the cardinals from the new cardinals Mongolia, Mali and East Timor.”
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Francis’ cardinals now make up two-thirds of the papal electors
All the pope’s men
