A plaintiff for the capacity of Francis’s mold

He never eager to be a priest. After rising to be a bishop, he thought he was suffering from the possibility syndrome. Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle asks if the first Asian Pope may be the first Asian Pope in the first years and is often a question.

“I think of myself in that position, No, No, I laugh at it,” said the Cardinal Tagle said BBC In 2015. “I don’t even know my life. How can I manage a society in the world?”

Then he already spoke as a potential replacement for Pope Benedict XVI. Now 67, Cardinal Tagle (pronounced label) again in many informal lists of “papabile” cardinals or a good shot Successful Papa Francis. The most prominent candidate from Asia would be an effective marker of the Roman Catholic Church to Africa and Asia Europe, where Continues to grow.

Francis was the only pope in the modern era, born outside Europe. If the Cardinal Tagle Pope was rising, the first Asian pontiphe in modern times. (A few pop in the unusual period, technically in West Asia, though, this is considered part of the Middle East.)

The Vatican controls the Cardinal Tagle missionary. “Chito” is widely known by the nickname, it is often called “Asia Francis” According to the ability to connect with the poor, the call of movement against climate change and the catholic clergyman, divorced and divorced mothers “hard” posture. It is popular for humility and attracted loyal to Pew and Facebook streams.

As the leader of the church in the Philippines, the activists and interlocutors were criticized as they were cowardly about the abuse of clerical sex. These complaints rose to the church as a profile. Last month, the survivors of the abuse of the priests, an advocacy group, Called the Vatican Explore the behavior of a cardinal label associated with clerical abuse in the Central African Republic and New Zealand. (The group also asked for a request in the other five cardinals.)

Separately, in 2022, Cardinal Tagle, which serves the entire management team of the Pope Francis, Caritas International International Team, the Vatican’s charitable goal, including the President. An external investigation found management and moral problems in the head office of Caritas.

At home, Cardinal Tagle was accused of former President Rodrigo Dutyterte to adequately solve the drug war Tens of thousands of people were performed in general.

“CHITO spoke clearly and boldly during the DutyTeRet administration, fewer people died,” said Robert Reyes, who was seminary with the Cardinal Tagle.

At that time, Cardinal was the archpite of Manila. He called the “last of human life in the waste”, but Mr. Cutler did not come directly.

The Cardinal Tagle did not respond to a request for an interview.

Today is one of the Cardinal Tagle Five Cardinal from the Philippines. Some Vatican Insiders see the Cardinal Pablo Virgilio Siongco David, which has a lower profile, as a potential papa.

When the Philippine legislature offers a bill to facilitate the bill, contraception and Cardinal Tagle to reject it. However, he later agreed with the members of the clergy, who threatened several MPs with excitement.

“He is trying to convince people rather than intimidating people,” he said Revef, Joseph A. Komonchak in the Cardinal Tagle at the American Catholic University in Washington in the 1980s.

Cardinal Tagle was the leader of the church in the Philippines, Mr. Canterte often mocked the Catholicism and insulted the Pope Francis.

Mr. Canterte said he was brought up by a priest when he had a child. Some priests, including Cardinal David, criticized the drug war. But the cardinal label was silent. Critics often point to Cardinal Jaime SinWho was a means of knocking out dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Cardinal Tagle in the issue of clerical abuse, said that the survivors are “Wound” to him. However, he said that the survivors should be looking for justice through the canonical process of the church, because “sacrifices, once exposed to the public, can stand up.” The church should take care of “surely the definitely lost abuse.”

“This is a very Asian approach,” the association’s Catholic Asian news in 2013 “and this approach to heal.”

“The sad thing is very touched with the truths facing the sexual exploitation of Cardinal Tagle, priests and brothers,” he said. He said the Cardinal said he was more concerned about the issues like divorce.

Cardinal Tagle’s approach has contributed a Culture of impunity in church in the PhilippinesAccording to a guard group, Bishopaccounts.org.

Cardinal Tagle admitted that he was criticized for “the strong lack of condemnation, I am not enough to do.” Interview with 2015 CruxA specialized publication in the Catholic Church. “Who am I to judge?” said, again The position of Francis in gay priests.

Born in Manila, the parents who worked in a bank grew a Cardinal Tagle in the city of Imus. He wanted to be a doctor, but a topeeie university was in the seminary after attending ATENEO De Manila.

In 1982, he was later scheduled for the 24-year-old, the Pope Pope, which was later held at the Catholic University, wrote his doctoral dissertation in Paul Vi.

In Washington, on his own initiative, they regularly visited the people suffering from AIDS.

He returned to IMUS in 1992, where he was known to travel here cipneya cheap mode of public transport. In the following decades, the archbishop of Manila, then called a cardinal, and eventually moved to the Vatican.

Now he could get up to the head of the church.

During the election of Benedict, Francis, the father of Cardinal Tagle wrote to Komonçak, asked for the former teacher to “pray for me.”

“I took it,” Ata Komonçak, who had the opportunity to not be selected from the Pope, he said. “Who wouldn’t be?”

Camille Elemia IMUS, in the Philippines and Elisabetta Povoledo From Rome.