[Cet article a été publié pour la première fois sur notre site le 22 avril 2025, et mis à jour et republié le 6 mai]
From 10 a.m. this Wednesday, May 7, the cardinals voters will shut themselves up in the Sistine Chapel and will come out only to eat and sleep. Or if they manage to elect the new pope. “This is the jackpot of the year, in the power struggle between liberal and illiberal powers from around the world: which of the two camps will drop the Holy See?” wonders the German newspaper The time. François appointed 108 of the 133 cardinals who will take part in the election. A data that suggests that his successor will be continuing the Pope’s pontificate of the Argentinian Pope, considered as a liberal reformist.
Nevertheless, “After the twelve years of French pontificate of François, some cardinals now say that they want a successor capable of stabilizing the ship and defusing tensions between progressives and conservatives on divorce, relations between people of the same sex, celibacy of priests and other controversial questions”, warn The Wall Street Journal.
This division is reflected in the lists of papabile, That is to say, favorites to succeed François at the head of
