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Canadian cardinal creeps quietly onto lists of 'papabili'
Catholic News Service ^ | 4/18/2005 | Cindy Wooden

Posted on 04/19/2005 5:43:06 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While pundits and cardinals themselves discounted any chance of a U.S. cardinal emerging as the 265th pontiff, a Canadian cardinal crept quietly onto the lists of "papabili."

Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet, a polyglot academic who briefly served as secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, started showing up on Italian newspapers' top-12 list three days before the April 18 conclave.

The newspaper Il Messaggero first referred to the 60-year-old as "the wild card" in the cardinals' deck, but the day the conclave opened it highlighted the Canadian's language skills, theological background and "fervent" Marian devotion.

"He is close to the positions of (Cardinals Joseph) Ratzinger and (Camillo) Ruini and a disciple of (Father Hans Urs) von Balthasar. Someone has sworn that he could be the 'surprise' of the conclave," Il Messaggero wrote.

"Very young with a peaceful countenance, he is considered one of the 'papabili,'" the newspaper said in a separate story in the same opening-day edition.

And in a third story, more analytical, the paper's chief Vatican reporter, Orazio Petrosillo, said that if the cardinals could not agree on an Italian pope they "could be forced to make a sensational leap across the ocean to the Americas," choosing either Cardinal Ouellet or one of four Latin Americans.

Even though he is not Italian, Cardinal Ouellet is no stranger to Rome and, more importantly, he can speak the language.

After studying in Rome, he returned to the city to teach in 1996 and a year later was appointed chair of dogmatic theology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family.

In 2001, he was named a bishop and appointed secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. He also served on the Commission for Religious Relations With the Jews.

The Italian dailies La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera mentioned Cardinal Ouellet as being "the only North American" in the running.

The Corriere del Ticino daily April 17 called Cardinal Ouellet "the strong last-minute candidate."


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KEYWORDS: canadian; catholic; conclave; ouellet; papabile; pope
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This is why a papal election cannot be handicapped like a horse race. As a disciple of Father von Balthasar and close in doctrine to Ratzinger and Ruini, this may be a pleasant surprise coming out of left field.
1 posted on 04/19/2005 5:43:06 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: Rutles4Ever

If they're gonna get close, they might as well go all the way, and elevate Cardinal Ratzinger.


2 posted on 04/19/2005 5:45:12 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you dont have to...." ;)
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To: Rutles4Ever

Habemus pappam, eh?


3 posted on 04/19/2005 5:45:54 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: hobbes1
"they might as well go all the way, and elevate Cardinal Ratzinger."

Can you believe the campaign of slur and innuendo aimed at Ratzinger?

The long knives are out.

4 posted on 04/19/2005 5:47:02 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Rutles4Ever

I was thinking Ratzinger, but after reading some bios, I think it will be Claudio Hummes from Brazil. He's of European ancestry and represents a place where Catholicism is growing by leaps and bounds. Everyone's happy.

Well, except American a la carte Catholics who are looking for a liberalization or a nod to the secular world. NOT going to happen.


5 posted on 04/19/2005 5:48:49 AM PDT by AbeKrieger
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To: Rutles4Ever

Dear Rutles4Ever,

I doubt they'll elect a 60 year-old fellow.


sitetest


6 posted on 04/19/2005 5:49:43 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Rutles4Ever

Supposedly the Cardinals of Buenos Aires, San Paulo, and
Tegulcigalpa are also strong candidates.

Wonder how they would rate on a deck-of-cards scale?


7 posted on 04/19/2005 5:50:41 AM PDT by rahbert
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To: Rutles4Ever

The tipoff would be if maple syrup is served at breakfast.


8 posted on 04/19/2005 5:50:59 AM PDT by Semper Paratus (-)
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To: Rutles4Ever

Fits the bill nicely. We need a younger, conservative Pope to finish off the liberals.

Regards, Ivan


9 posted on 04/19/2005 5:51:12 AM PDT by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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To: billorites

Kinda reminds one of W....


Hopefully the election will go the same way.


10 posted on 04/19/2005 5:51:13 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you dont have to...." ;)
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To: Semper Paratus

One thought occured to me - perhaps this will do some good in Canada: its government is rife with corruption and trying to do immoral things like legitimise gay marriage. Perhaps the new Holy Father (God willing), will pay a visit to Canada and have the same effect on the Canadians as JP II did on Poland...Liberal tyranny might be killed off by this.

How beautiful it would be if God struck back at the Liberals for their malfesance in such a way.

Regards, Ivan


11 posted on 04/19/2005 5:55:13 AM PDT by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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To: Molly Pitcher

ping




12 posted on 04/19/2005 6:02:46 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Blogs have a strangle hold on the MSM. The MSM is kicking out the windshield.)
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To: Rutles4Ever
Read more about Hans Urs von Balthasar
13 posted on 04/19/2005 6:04:34 AM PDT by A. Pole (George Orwell: "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.")
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To: Rutles4Ever

A pope from secularist Canada would be as surprising as a pope from America.


14 posted on 04/19/2005 6:06:35 AM PDT by starfish923 (Iohannas Paulus II, Requiescat in Pacem)
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Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet, a polyglot academic...

If this guy becomes pope then you can count on Quebec leaving the union in the not so near future. Get ready for pandemonium.

15 posted on 04/19/2005 6:08:13 AM PDT by Podkayne
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To: billorites
Can you believe the campaign of slur and innuendo aimed at Ratzinger?
The long knives are out.

Hey, he's a German. I'm not surprised at all. This IS America, after all, where Germans are generally treated this way.

Exceptions: Boris Becker, Steffi Graff and Michael Schumacher. They got a pass on our anti-Germanism. I guess because they wield no power.

16 posted on 04/19/2005 6:09:33 AM PDT by starfish923 (Iohannas Paulus II, Requiescat in Pacem)
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To: AbeKrieger
I was thinking Ratzinger, but after reading some bios, I think it will be Claudio Hummes from Brazil. He's of European ancestry and represents a place where Catholicism is growing by leaps and bounds. Everyone's happy.
Well, except American a la carte Catholics who are looking for a liberalization or a nod to the secular world. NOT going to happen.

All good points.

17 posted on 04/19/2005 6:10:39 AM PDT by starfish923 (Iohannas Paulus II, Requiescat in Pacem)
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To: AbeKrieger
"Well, except American a la carte Catholics who are looking for a liberalization or a nod to the secular world. NOT going to happen."

I am ashamed by many of my American Catholic brethren. Many are so egocentric and think they are the only Catholics in the world. First off, I think the Catholics in America are some of the laziest most undevout people on the planet!!

Second, they seem to think that the Pope creates doctrine out of thin air! In fact, he merely interprets the Bible, the WORD OF GOD!!! He has no say so in how doctrine is supposed to be. It is God's to make or break, and I doubt God will break any of it.

Stupid lazy people. Don't even know how their own Church works...it IS NOT a democracy so GET OVER IT, MORONS!
18 posted on 04/19/2005 6:10:47 AM PDT by metalmanx2j (Eric Cartman: Democrats piss me off.)
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To: Rutles4Ever; american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; ...
Someone recently mentioned that prior to 2003, JPII commented that his successor had not yet been made a Cardinal. Cardinal Marc Ouellet was elevated in October 2003!

"In some ways he is a traditionalist, and has advocated a return to Eucharistic adoration and Gregorian chant, suggesting that Quebec’s 1960s “Quiet Revolution” marked too radical a change. Yet people who have worked with Ouellet describe him as friendly, humble, and flexible."
.... John Allen of the (liberal) National Catholic Reporter.

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19 posted on 04/19/2005 6:11:41 AM PDT by NYer ("America needs much prayer, lest it lose its soul." John Paul II)
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To: AbeKrieger

Actually the church has not done that well at all in Brazil in recent years, while Protestants, mostly Pentacostals and evangecals have grown dramatically in the last 20 years. Cardinal Hummes is considered to be a liberal.


20 posted on 04/19/2005 6:14:03 AM PDT by RFT1
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