Who Will Be The Next Pope? #sorts

The papal conclave to elect a new pope will begin this week on May 7.

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As Vatican experts gather in Rome to issue their lists of papabili, or strong candidates to run the Catholic Church, it is worth remembering they are usually wrong.

Call it divine will, call it unpredictable cardinals, but what goes on inside the Sistine Chapel before the white smoke emerges often upsets the odds and hands the role to an outsider.

The Guinean cardinal Robert Sarah went into the 2013 conclave tipped as a strong contender, only for that billing to apparently crush his chances, proving the Roman expression that “he who enters a conclave as Pope exits as a cardinal”.

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