New Pope 2013: Sex Abuse Victims Group Names Filipino, Austrian and Irish As Promising Papabiles after Rejecting Dirty Dozen Cardinals

International Business Times
March 8, 2013

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The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), after giving the thumbs down on Wednesday to 12 cardinals because of their alleged bad record in handling sex abuse cases involving minors, gave the thumbs up on Thursday to three papabiles.

SNAP identified the three as Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Austria and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Ireland.

The network conceded that the Irish clergyman is not a cardinal, but Vatican does not prohibit the election of a non-cardinal as pope, although historically, it had been cardinals.

Cardinal Tagle, at age 55, is the second youngest of the 115 cardinal electors now in Vatican to pick the successor of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI who resigned on Feb 28.

He was made a member of the College of Cardinals on Oct 24, 2012, making him the seventh Filipino cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.