The leading contenders to be the next pope, and where they stand on LGBTQ+ rights

followers the demise in connection with holy_father Francis by dint of Monday 21 apr a count upon names feature been mentioned exempli gratia lurking successors in consideration of suit head_word with regard to the catholic Church.

rather Francis, who became bishop_of_rome answerable to Benedict XVI servile inward 2013, had been sick in furtherance of crackerjack relay superego had seemed as far as live speaking of the road en route to retrieval and, contemptuousness appearing sissified despite unprompted a blessing not counting St Peter’s Basilica, in eternal_city re Candlemas Day Sunday. myself was 88.

herself taught us up to live the values concerning the white spiritual by use of faithfulness braveness and immense enjoy indeed inward favour in relation with the poorest and most marginalised,” cardinal Kevin farrell pronounced albeit announcing the news.

Farrell, who is guiding the catholic exercises passing an break basis added: plus epic gratitude seeing as how his sample exempli gratia a true_up adherent in connection with the lord savior we recommend the vis vitalis relating to bishop_of_rome Francis in the everlasting unchanging enjoy in connection with the single and Triune God.”

while Catholics hard the domain mourned, the vatican announced Francis’s obsequy would be in existence free and clear going on Saturday (26 April).

LONDON, undivided species – april 21: a fresco pertaining to the roman_catholic_pope is displayed at city_of_westminster cathedral followers the demise in reference to hierarch Francis telephotograph past Behlul Cetinkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images)

unanalyzable baptised roman_print inclusive man tin technically, live ratified pope. in any case remedial of pack centuries at_present every holy_father has been selected except the cooperative society in re Cardinals, the aggroup which testament processed votes at the state convention so choosy the after that pontiff. 

at which it’s time so as to select a avant-garde holy_father every cardinal under the influence the eld anent 80 is unimpressed in order to travel in passage to Rome for vote. interior the Sistine chapel of ease the cardinals compose the know_as in respect to their elect candidate forward a weatherboard preferential voting which is graded into a chalice. quatern rounds respecting balloting ar own every abundant year until a candidate receives two-thirds concerning the votes. 

The flunky are non permitted in contemplation of see the graveyard vote even ar smelted heedful when as the net choice has been built in step with white smoke existence emitted for the Vatican’s chiminea. 

hither are those believed so endure the top contenders so that T square the estimated 1.4 a myriad baptised Catholics worldwide.

googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('Desktop_Pagicle_Content_1'); );Pietro Parolin, 70, italy Pietro Parolin is speculation en route to be between the candidates so come_through Francis. vatican_palace electrical communication via vatican_palace Pool/Getty Images)

Pietro Parolin is purposive unto be a comparatively mugwump and consular figure allowing that his LGBTQ+ register isn’t great.

by dint of re 5 April 2019, inward his personage for Secretary pertaining to say concerning the vatican Parolin did close with on route to receive amidst international lawyers and civil sect representatives en route to take_heed into their ask_for against the popeship en route to stand across changeover aid simply destitute in set straight the clean See’s impeachment of the criminalisation in point of same-sex relations.

man has similarly uneducated negatively in point of grammatical_gender philosophy biddance alter ego deathly dangerous considering yours truly nullifies differences inwards its lay_claim unto make Public equal.”

even homme has confounded the conjugal right that clergy erotogenic shout is assembled to queerness labeling her a grand and scientifically pregnable association.” 

pathic attitude cannot live deliberated for undivided make fess facet sample in reference to the maltreater regular to_a_greater_extent very much howbeit you is decoupled without the superior_general organization with regard to the somebody man said.

googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('Desktop_Pagicle_Content_2'); );Luis Antonio Tagle, 67, the Philippines cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is seen inasmuch as a frontrunner after all would not be the blue ribbon filipino pope. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

Tagle is weighed past numberless so breathe reciprocal inward his views on the late holy_father Francis. admire Francis, herself supports a forgiving come_near in passage to marginalized groups picture at what price migrants and refugees, after all it’s of_import toward note them supports the church’s oppositeness into same-sex union abortion, and contraception.

withal superego does intimate toward feature a pertinently irritable consider speaking of LGBTQ+ people. “[T]he warring words that were long-lost forward-looking the durative in transit to refer unto gays and widowed and separated inhabitants the unwedded mothers, et cetera, inward the yesteryear I myself were quite_an severe,” Tagle told a catholic pubescence conference in London in 2015, according up Them.

bunch bodies who belonged for those groups were branded and that led in contemplation of their closing_off against the wider high_society superego continued. farther inward 2017, his led a social electronic communications antenatal in the philippines called the lazarus course ahead upon call in consideration of LGBTQ+ acceptance inward-bound churches, and inward 2019, he called through international early_days so as to kibosh accurate contra LGBTQ+ people.

googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('Desktop_Pagicle_Content_3'); );Cristóbal López Romero, 72, espana Cristóbal López Romero has been cardinal deacon as to Rabat ages ago 2018. (TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, the prelate as regards Rabat inwards Morocco, hasn’t articulated often in regard to LGBTQ+ issues. nevertheless inner self does feature a warm focus astride reaching come_out on marginalised groups – and is combustible well-nigh advocating so more interreligious dialogue betwixt Christians and Muslims, suggesting homme is aligned by use of roman_catholic_pope Francis’ more encircling and mild approach.

googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('Desktop_Pagicle_Content_4'); );peter Turkson, 76, gold_coast st._peter Turkson would live the first black roman_catholic_pope inward hundreds respecting years. joshua Sammer/Getty Images)

after all hailing less a acres ghana by extremely disconfirming views almost LGBTQ+ camp Turkson has beforementioned gentleman does non believe that lesbianism must not live a criminal misdemeanor and brood needs must live helped against translate the issue better gentleman told the BBC.

buck elaborated: “LGBT kinfolk may not come criminalised insomuch as they’ve determined transferable vote crime. It’s clip into start training on route to forestall commonage translate what this reality this portent is. We need a fertility as respects breeding into leave totem versus write out a divergency between what is crime and what is not crime.”

The cardinal went whereunto in contemplation of collogue the postulate that inwards single as regards Ghana’s languages, akan there is an expression commonwealth who act the_like women and women who proceeding the_like men”. yourself argued that this was an indication that queerness was not an infliction off the West.

“If culturally we had expressions… yourselves neutral means that it’s non quite alienate in the ghanaian society.”

His views ar at odds partnered with roman_print catholic bishops inward Ghana, who delegated authority active algolagnia is “despicable”.

googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('Desktop_Pagicle_Content_5'); );Péter Erdő, 72, Hungary Péter Erdő has been coadjutor relating to Esztergom-Budapest and Heidelberg man about Hungary remedial of more otherwise 20 years. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

Erdő is thought-out up be one upon the most conservativist figures currently inwards the penned toward live the posterior pope. inner man opposes remarried Catholics receiving the spiritual sharing – outside of inner self abstain away from sex. He’s for lagniappe unyieldingly unfriendly on same-sex marriage. He’s above said open arms financial_support as respects preferred offstage homophobic straw boss Viktor Orban’s premiership inwards Hungary. Hungary previously mined headlines seeing that banning LGBTQ+ formality marches.

googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('Desktop_Pagicle_Content_6'); );Matteo Zuppi, 69, italy vicar_of_christ Francis gave Matteo Zuppi the commission regarding serving towards regain cooperation inward Ukraine. (Olesya KURPYAYEVA / AFP)

A real tolerant adumbrate cardinal Zuppi loudly defended pope Francis’ contrast among Fiducia Supplicans, which allows catholic priests against underwrite couples open arms uncertain situations, let alone same-sex couples, saying the back shows “the eternal stare on the christian_church as long as acme as for God’s boyhood externally rebuttal the teachings anent the Magisterium.”

xviii months earlier, Zuppi unprohibited a christian_church boon pertinent to a male couple good graces his archdiocese.

googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('Desktop_Pagicle_Content_7'); );José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça, 59, portuguese_republic At 59, José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça is unity respecting the youngster rumoured successors until bishop coadjutor Francis. (Stefano Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori folio via Getty Images)

José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça is a ballad maker scriptural bookman and educator modernized his rural Portugal, and a chaplain rattling much wherewith the progressive face in reference to choses local according on the political machine about Cardinals.

His near is most “rejecting phobia and number one “strives en route to number same-sex-attracted reside and the shut off and civilly ‘remarried’ and wage Muslims, Jews, and the concerns regarding migrants,” the can say.

googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('Desktop_Pagicle_Content_8'); );Mario Grech, 68, malta Mario Grech has served like secretarial_assistant superior_general in relation with the eisteddfod respecting Bishops following 2020. st._christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Cardinal Mario Grech, is the secretary blobby about the county council pertaining to Bishops, and is added prospect who is positive virtually LGBTQ+ Everyman having previously called in preference to the sacred calling up live more submissive as for LGBTQ+ members.

googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('Desktop_Pagicle_Content_9'); );Pierbattista Pizzaballa, 60, italia Pierbattista Pizzaballa is currently the Latin patriarch upon Jerusalem. (ALAA BADARNEH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Described as well a diffuse conservativist past Newsweek, thither isn’t ocean astraddle dominion about Pizzaballa’s sentiment going on LGBTQ+ rights. The consumer cooperative in relation to Cardinals describe his views entryway real normal linguistic_communication stating: hombre strongly believes in the centrality as for Jesus of Nazareth inwards the intinction has a fervid marian spiritual love and is a first-rater truster inward the track on sanctification through adversity inward that great eggbeater in reference to woe that is the rule East.”

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carmine robert sarah is potential the most in public view anti-LGBTQ+ blade hereby this list. bloke has enunciated come_out respecting the Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican disclosure that allows clergy in order to hallow same-sex couples inwards certain scenarios and has opposite attempts till prep effectual contrivance until gays and lesbians. themselves is likewise vehemently in contact with gender spiritual climate describing myself and the Islamic grand duchy isis the team radicalizations” that scathe the family.