Sentence examples for next pontiff from inspiring English sources

The church needs "shock therapy" from its next pontiff, writes one observer.

The next pontiff must unite an increasingly globalized church paralyzed by scandal and mismanagement under the spotlight in a fast-moving media age.

Certainly, the Pope has locked the dossier in his safe with instructions that it is for the eyes of the next pontiff only.

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One of Jep's acquaintances is Cardinal Bellucci, tipped to be the next pontiff, hilariously played by 75-year-old Roberto Herlitzka.

The prospect of an influx of dollar-spending pilgrims would offer a welcome boost for an industry whose interest in the choice of next pontiff is understandably more secular than it is spiritual.

In the morning, the cardinals had celebrated a special Mass led by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who gave the last major public statement by a Vatican prelate before the church's next supreme pontiff emerges.

Among his many claims - on his website and in the Ugandan documents - are that he will be the next pope, and he claims that when he met Pope John Paul II, the pontiff confirmed it.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Amid all of the prognosticating about who the cardinals could choose as the next pope in the conclave that starts here on Tuesday (March 12), one reliable thread has emerged: the desire to elect a pontiff who can be a pastor to the world as well as a taskmaster to the Roman Curia.

Last week, Cardinal O'Brien drew different headlines, telling the BBC that the next pope should consider abandoning the church's insistence on priestly celibacy, and suggesting that it might be time for the papal conclave to choose a pontiff from Africa or Asia, where church membership has been growing even as it has fallen across Europe and North America.

It is a lot to ask, but that is the emerging profile of the man many of his fellow-cardinals would like to see replace Benedict XVI as the next pope.On March 4th the princes of the church began a series of preliminary "general congregations", the first step to electing a pontiff.