Several currents to carry cardinal to papacy

On CNN’s Connect the World programme on Mar 11, the day before the conclave opened, host Becky Anderson asked me a question about geographic blocs in the college of cardinals.

Here’s what I said: “If there were a lone strong Latin American candidate, I think that guy would already have this race sewn up… The problem is, there isn’t just one plausible Latin American, there are several.”

As it turns out, I was half-right.