Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Canadian cardinal who could succeed Pope Benedict has mixed following at home

MONTREAL - Word that a Canadian cardinal is a presumed contender to succeed Pope Benedict has been met with a mixed response in his own Quebec backyard.

Advocates for victims of sexual abuse by priests and even a member of the clergy aren't quite in Marc Cardinal Ouellet's cheering section.

The idea of a global icon emerging from here has stirred the local imagination.

But that excitement is tempered by the fact that Ouellet's home province has become intensely secular and even anti-clerical over the years.

Rev. Raymond Gravel says amid this decline the Catholic church should be looking for a pope who has worked closely to the world's poor ? not another theologian.

The former Bloc Quebecois MP says he doesn't know if Ouellet fits this bill.

Ouellet is being touted as one of the likeliest successors ? perhaps even the favourite ? to take over from Pope Benedict.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/canadian-cardinal-could-succeed-pope-benedict-mixed-following-205241459.html

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