Posted on May 08, 2025 at 4:08 p.m. / Modified on May 08, 2025 at 4:13 PM.
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Since the start of the conclave, launched this Wednesday, the whole world has its eyes turned on a small Roman fireplace (several media offer live broadcast of the frail tube styling the Sistine Chappelle). But for the moment still nothing. Black smoke. The cardinals continue to think. Which is excellent news, say the Lucerne newspapers as Centraplus and the Luzerner Zeitungwho think that the more the thinking lasts, the more their champion – Kurt Koch – is likely to win.
Who is Kurt Koch? Born in Emmenbrücke in 1950, the Swiss studied theology in Lucerne and Munich, before becoming a priest in 1982, then Bishop of Basel in 1995. In 2010, Benedict XVI appointed him president of the Pontifical Council for the promotion of Christian Unity and the Cardinal. It is also, and perhaps above all, a figure of ecumenism, a movement which advocates interconfessional dialogue. Kurt Koch is a man “useful thanks to his experience in this area and his knowledge of other Christian confessions, not only the Reformed, but also Lutherans and Orthodox”, underlined in our pages the Friborg theologian André Kolly a few weeks ago.
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