{"id":21653,"date":"2025-04-29T04:40:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-contender-for-the-papacy-in-the-mold-of-francis\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T04:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:40:53","slug":"a-contender-for-the-papacy-in-the-mold-of-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-contender-for-the-papacy-in-the-mold-of-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Contender for the Papacy in the Mold of Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He never aspired to be a priest. After he rose to be a bishop, he implied that he suffered from impostor syndrome. And when Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle of the Philippines is asked if he could become the first Asian pope \u2014 a frequent question in recent years \u2014 he says it is impossible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThinking of myself in that position, no, no, I laugh at it,\u201d Cardinal Tagle told <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xbqB3dKZgHM&amp;t=707s\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the BBC<\/a> in 2015. \u201cI cannot even manage my life. How can I manage a worldwide community?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By then he had already been talked about as a potential replacement for Pope Benedict XVI. Now 67, Cardinal Tagle (pronounced TAG-leh) is once again on many unofficial short lists of \u201cpapabile\u201d cardinals, or those with a good shot at <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/21\/world\/europe\/next-pope-francis-candidates.html\" title=\"\">succeeding Pope Francis<\/a>. The most prominent candidate from Asia, his election would be an emphatic marker of the Roman Catholic Church\u2019s shift away from Europe to Africa and Asia, where it <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/vatican-city\/news\/2024-04\/vatican-central-statistical-office-church-pontifical-yearbook.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">continues to grow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Francis was the only pope in the modern era who was born outside Europe. If Cardinal Tagle ascends to the papacy, he would be the first Asian pontiff in modern times. (Several popes in antiquity were from Syria, which is technically in West Asia, though it is now considered part of the Middle East.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the Vatican, Cardinal Tagle oversees missionary work. Widely known by his nickname \u201cChito,\u201d he is often called the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/church\/2015\/01\/manila-cardinal-luis-tagle-the-asian-pope-francis\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAsian Francis\u201d<\/a> for his ability to connect with the poor, his call for action against climate change and his criticism of the \u201charsh\u201d stance adopted by Catholic clerics toward gay people, divorced people and unwed mothers. He is popular for his humility, and his homilies have drawn the faithful to the pews and to Facebook streams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But as leader of the church in the Philippines, he was criticized by activists and fellow priests as being timid about the scourge of clerical sex abuse. Those complaints continued as his profile in the church rose. Last month, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, an advocacy group, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/67f051268ff9667a0f3091d2\/t\/67f4db2725ccf900c637fdeb\/1744100137904\/Tagle_VELM+Complaint_3.25.25.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">urged the Vatican<\/a> to investigate Cardinal Tagle\u2019s conduct in relation to cases of alleged clerical abuse in the Central African Republic and New Zealand. (The group also sought inquiries into five other cardinals.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Separately, in 2022, Pope Francis removed the entire management team of Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican\u2019s charitable arm, including Cardinal Tagle, who served as president. An external review had found management and morale problems at Caritas\u2019s head office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At home, Cardinal Tagle has been faulted for not adequately addressing former President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s drug war, in which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/world\/asia\/icc-philippines-rodrigo-duterte.html\" title=\"\">tens of thousands of people were summarily executed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHad Chito spoken clearly and courageously during the Duterte administration, fewer people could have died,\u201d said the Rev. Robert Reyes, who was in seminary with Cardinal Tagle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the time, the cardinal was archbishop of Manila. He called for an \u201cend to the waste of human lives\u201d but did not confront Mr. Duterte directly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cardinal Tagle did not respond to a request for an interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Today, Cardinal Tagle is one of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/it\/documentation\/cardinali---statistiche\/elenco_per_nazione.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">five cardinals from the Philippines<\/a>. Some Vatican insiders see Cardinal Pablo Virgilio Siongco David, who has a lower profile, as a potential pope as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When the Philippine legislature proposed a bill to make it easier to access contraception, Cardinal Tagle called on lawmakers to reject it. But he said later that he disagreed with fellow members of the clergy who threatened several lawmakers with excommunication.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe tries to persuade people rather than intimidate them,\u201d said<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>the Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, who taught Cardinal Tagle at The Catholic University of America in Washington in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Cardinal Tagle was leader of the church in the Philippines, Mr. Duterte frequently mocked Catholicism and insulted Pope Francis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Duterte has said he was molested by a priest when he was a child. Some priests, including Cardinal David, criticized his drug war. But Cardinal Tagle stayed silent. His critics often point to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/21\/obituaries\/cardinal-jaime-sin-a-champion-of-the-poor-in-the-philippines-is.html\" title=\"\">Cardinal Jaime Sin<\/a>, who was instrumental in toppling the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the issue of clerical abuse, Cardinal Tagle has said that survivors\u2019 accounts <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/vatican-city\/news\/2019-02\/protection-of-minors-interview-cardinal-tagle.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cwound\u201d him<\/a>. But he has also said that survivors should seek justice through the church\u2019s canonical process because \u201cthe victims, once exposed to the public, might also be shamed.\u201d The church, he said, should also care for \u201cthe abuser, who is definitely lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a very Asian approach,\u201d he told the Union Catholic Asian News in 2013, \u201cand that approach leads to healing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe sad thing is that Cardinal Tagle is very much out of touch with the realities facing the sexual abuse of children by priests and brothers,\u201d said the Rev. Shay Cullen, an Irish priest working in the Philippines. He said the cardinal had told him the church was more concerned about matters like divorce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cardinal Tagle\u2019s approach has contributed to a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/29\/world\/asia\/philippines-catholic-priests-abuse.html\" title=\"\">culture of impunity in the church in the Philippines<\/a>, according to a watchdog group, BishopAccountability.org.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cardinal Tagle has acknowledged being criticized for \u201cnot being strong, that I don\u2019t condemn enough,\u201d but he said he took heart from Francis\u2019s example, according to a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/church\/2015\/01\/manila-cardinal-luis-tagle-the-asian-pope-francis\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2015 interview with Crux<\/a>, a publication specializing in the Catholic Church. \u201cWho am I to judge?\u201d he said, repeating <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/30\/world\/europe\/pope-francis-gay-priests.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIf%20someone%20is%20gay%20and,the%20English%20word%20%E2%80%9Cgay.%E2%80%9D\" title=\"\">Francis\u2019s position on gay priests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Born in Manila, Cardinal Tagle was raised in the city of Imus by parents who worked in a bank. He wanted to be a doctor but entered seminary after attending Ateneo de Manila, a top Jesuit university.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ordained in 1982 at the age of 24, he later wrote his doctoral thesis on Pope Paul VI at Catholic University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Washington, on his own initiative, he regularly visited a hospice for people suffering from AIDS, said the Rev. Peter Bernardi, a classmate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He returned to Imus in 1992, where he was known to travel by bicycle or <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/09\/world\/asia\/philippines-jeepney.html\" title=\"\">jeepney<\/a>, a cheap mode of public transport. In the following decades, he was named archbishop of Manila, then a cardinal, and eventually he moved to the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now he could rise to the helm of the church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Back during the election of Benedict\u2019s successor, who proved to be Francis, Cardinal Tagle wrote to Father Komonchak, asking his former teacher to \u201cpray for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI took him to mean that he was overwhelmed by the possibility of his being elected pope,\u201d Father Komonchak said. \u201cWho wouldn\u2019t be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Camille Elemia<!-- --> contributed reporting from Imus, the Philippines, and <!-- -->Elisabetta Povoledo<!-- --> from Rome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/world\/asia\/luis-tagle-asian-pope.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He never aspired to be a priest. 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