Filipino prelate: New pope will reduce secularism
The Philippines’ top Roman Catholic leader says Pope Francis’ acts of reaching out to the masses will strengthen a church endangered by secularism.
The Philippines’ top Roman Catholic leader says Pope Francis’ acts of reaching out to the masses will strengthen a church endangered by secularism.
Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle and Cardinals Gaudencio Rosales and Ricardo Vidal arrived on Thursday from the Vatican where they witnessed the inauguration of Pope Francis.
Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, the second youngest member of the College of Cardinals which will elect the next Pope, has been tagged by Church observers as one of the papabile, or the cardinals who may likely become the Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and its 1.1 billion members around the world.
