Cardinal Bergoglio was not a prominent presence at the Vatican, and several cardinals interviewed said they did not know him well.
At the end of last year, the Vatican convened an inquiry of cardinals and interviewed the professor and the bishop individually.
Some cardinals we interviewed in the past week said they were looking for the next pope to be someone younger and more energetic.
In a separate interview, Cardinal Walter Kasper, a German theologian close to Francis, said the pope wanted to leave the decision up to local bishops' conferences.
In an interview, Cardinal Dulles said that in a democracy, "the state is not seen as a superior institution over against the people, but rather as an instrument of the people".
One reads Cardinal Edward Egan's interview in Connecticut magazine with sadness — largely because of the absence of words of sorrow, or really any pretense of being sorry about the Church's priest sex-abuse scandal.
But in an interview, Cardinal Bernard Law, chairman of the international policy committee, which drew up the proposal, said the word only made explicit a position the bishops had previously taken.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin February 8 , 2012One reads Cardinal Edward Egan's interview in Connecticut magazine with sadness — largely because of the absence of words of sorrow, or really any pretense of being sorry about the Church's priest sex-abuse scandal.
In the same interview, Cardinal Hoyos defended Pope Benedict XVI's predecessor, saying that while the church stood by "those who truly were victims [of sexual abuse]... John Paul II, that holy pope, was not wrong when he defended his priests so that they were not, due to economic reasons, treated like criminal paedophiles without due process".
Ardoin teaches two Cardinal Courses, Qualitative Interviewing and The Theory and Practice of Environmental Education.
