Given the recent turn in the pope's health I think it may be good to remind our readers of John Allen's book Conclave that deals with the process papal elections. My comments on this text, and the parties that will be battling to elect one of their own as the next pope, can be found here and here.
And as I mentioned here, most of the names that are discussed as likely successors to John Paul II in the media are among the names Allen floats as likely candidates.
And for those of you with lots of time on your hands, you can find many musings on possible successors to the pope in the archives of Allen's "Word from Rome" column. For example, this column discusses Cardinals Bergoglio, Scola and Napier, this one has more on Bergoglio, and this one from last March has a list of his top 5 Italian and 3rd World candidates from that time period.
Posted by armand at February 24, 2005 03:56 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Culture