This will be the new Pope, according to bets: the favorite cardinals to occupy the position

After the death of Pope Francis we are at vacant headquarters, or more specifically apostolic host. Which has triggered a list of the most papable names. The favorites to happen have the enormous work of providing a forceful message in an increasingly polarized world. Because the truth is that The candidates to carry the rudder of the Catholic Church are emerging between conservatives and men determined to follow the legacy of the Argentine Pope. Even Washington has driven an applicant on which the question of whether he is a Trumpist candidate. Doubts will be resolved with the conclave. It takes place behind closed doors and only cardinals under 80 years, almost more than half of the total number, have a voice in a decision that will have a worldwide impact.

But Meanwhile, the pools and betting houses have already been unleashed already ask who will be the next Pope. Oddschecker is a website that has become a reference for betting lovers and points out the seven candidates that resonate most in the halls of the Holy See. Analysts calculate the perceived probabilities of the cardinals.

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This Italian cardinal has 6.66% probabilities and is placed in seventh place. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem has against his age, 60 years. But in his history he has to promote the study of Hebrew so that Catholics dialogue with Israeli society and regularized the situation of Arab employees, so that they were not outside the State. He is a great communicator that represents an opening church and appeals for interreligious dialogue. About Francisco said he was always “very clear” on Gaza. A territory that “represented one of the elements of his pontificate: the proximity to the poor and the disregarded.”

And at a press conference He said that Pope Francis’s legacy will continue. «The Holy Land is a microcosm of the conflicts and the situations you see throughout the world. What we need here is what is needed worldwide ».

Robert Sarah

With 8.33% probabilities are in sixth place. FThat one of the most critical of the Pope in life. The blessing to the homosexual couples included in the declaration ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ approved by the Pontiff. This 79 -year -old Guinean is a great of the traditional liturgy. If chosen would become the fourth African Pope in the history of the Catholic Church.

Former prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, advocates by the Mass in Latin and remains distanced from certain reforms promoted by Francisco. Among conservative candidates is one of those who have more options to be potato, according to predictions.

Péter Erdő

This European candidate is also with Sarah with 8.33% probabilities. It belongs to most moderate church sectorbut that did not prevent him from dialogue and tend bridges with the Supreme Pontiff. This Budapest archbishop is an expert in ecclesiastical law. In 2014, Pope Francis appointed him “general rapporteur” in the Synod about the family highlighting not to condition the conversations. But he opposed the call of the Pope in 2015. Moment in which Holy Father appealed to the churches open the doors to house migrants. Erdő pointed out that this could increase “human trafficking cases.”

The ABC correspondent in the Vatican, Javier Martínez-Brocal, says of him that he is endowed with sensitivity to Orthodox Christians, and would be a good interlocutor with open sectors of the Orthodox patriarchy of Moscow.

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Fourth place is positioning Peter Kodwo It has a 12.5% ​​probabilities. According to France 24, he was born on October 11, 1948 in Nsuta, a small town in Ghana, and climbed on to become one of the most prominent figures within the Catholic Church in the 21st century. It was close to Pope Francis. And the environment and the defense of the most vulnerable are basic pillars of their speech.

It has opposed the criminalization of homosexual relations in African countries. And in 2012, “he was accused of carrying out alarmist predictions about the expansion of Islam in Europe at an episcopal conference of the Vatican, so he later apologized,” says the BBC. And as a striking detail he was a guitarist and played in a Funk band. The BBC highlights its energetic presence.

Mateo Zuppi

Is in third place with the 12.5 % of the probabilities. This 69 -year -old cardinal is president of the Italian Episcopal Conference and archbishop of Bologna. In 2019 he was appointed Cardinal by Pope Francis, in 2019. They have called him “the Italian Francisco” for his modest lifestyle, for helping those in need and for defending inclusion.

Brocal details that in 2023, the Pope commissioned the mission impossible to help Ukraine and Russia fulfill humanitarian gestures that soften the tensions. But he faces the reluctance of the most conservative wing of the Cardinal Group, and has been criticized for the lack of results in sexual abuse research committed within the Church.

Luis Antonio Tagle

He is a Filipino cardinal who Second place is disputed in bets with 25% probabilities. Tagle, with 67 years, is a moderate and calls him the “Francisco Asian.” His dedication to social problems is his strong point. And although he was appointed prefect of the Congregation for the evangelization of the peoples, he was not comfortable in this position inside the Vatican Curia.

Brocal details that He gives his best when he is close to people, in difficult social contexts, among simple people. He does not want to get tangled up with the Roman bureaucracy, but it would be perfect if what the voters are looking for is a missionary pope.

Pietro Parolin

The man who is on everyone’s mouth has great popularity. Betting houses give you a 33, 3% probabilities such as the favorite, far ahead of the second classified. A 70 -year -old Italian who as Secretary of State of the Vatican It was the right hand of Pope Francis. Moreover, he acted as a replacement for the Holy Father in several events.

But as the BBC highlights, some consider it more prone to prioritize diplomacy and a global perspective of the institution than the purity of the Catholic dogma. He is a pure race that acted as a mediator in conflicts of Ukraine with Russia and supports the solution of the two states in the conflict between Israel and Palestine. It is the best known name between the purpurated and the one who will preside over the conclave puts it in an advantage position.

But, despite all these calculations on the most prominent names to be the new Pope, the truth is that you have to take into account uncertainty and that the conclave has previously been marked by unexpected turns. From there, the old Italian saying: “Who enters a conclave as a potato, comes out as a cardinal.”