Karaoke cardinal leads the race to become the next pope

With the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88, the world’s attention now turns to who will replace him.

Predicting who will be chosen as the next leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics is notoriously fraught with difficulties. In theory, any baptised Catholic male could be made Pope.

The contest is likely to come down to a battle between progressives who applaud the late pope’s comparatively liberal stance on divorcees, gays and the plight of refugees, and conservatives who loathed his agenda.

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