What are they saying?
Catholic News Agency’s Carol Glatz reported on some of the insights to what some of the Cardinals were thinking.
Speaking to reporters April 29, Cardinal Louis Sako, the Iraq-based patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, said the atmosphere among the cardinals is “fraternal and sincere.”
Cardinal Jorge Jiménez Carvajal, the 83-year-old retired archbishop of Cartagena, Colombia, said there was “a great spirit of communion” even with the expression of many different opinions.
Cardinal John Ribat of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 68, said the atmosphere was “free, welcoming” with everyone being open to one another.
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, retired archbishop of Vienna, 80, also agreed with the homily’s message and said, “We are always moving forward. Do not be afraid.”
Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, 82, retired auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, said there is a sense that the church needs to be a kind of “utopia” where there is room “for everyone: ‘todos, todos, todos.”
Cardinal Ribat said the next pope should be “open to all,” but there should also be “a way of kind of controlling, not in a bad way, but in a way that keeps everyone together and unites everyone and to journey together in that way.”
Read the full article here: https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/conclave-might-be-brief-next-pope-must-be-open-all-some-cardinals-say
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝑷𝒐𝒑𝒆? 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘.