Pictured is Cardinal Matteo Zuppi. According to an article in The New York Times, Zuppi should be seen as someone on a "shortlist" to replace Pope Francis, who died on April 21st.
Predicting who will be the next Pope is probably harder than predicting who will win the 2025 NBA Playoffs, about which I recently wrote in this daily blog. I am not making any predictions, whatsoever, about either who will win the Playoffs, or about who will be the next Pope.
I do, though, want to give a shout out to something that Cardinal Zuppi said, according to that article in The Times. In a homily, a little "religious speech" that Zuppi presented to the College of Cardinals in 2019, the day Zuppi was made a Cardinal, Zuppi said the following:
Today I can see, and I believe we all see it, the joy of being together as a piece of our common life, exactly the opposite of individualism.
In politics, as in religion, we are "in this together." We are all "individuals," but we are not only individuals, and the true nature of our lives - the lives that should bring us "joy," and not "despair" - is "exactly the opposite of individualism."
I send good wishes to those who will be making a decision about who will be the next Pope. And I would like to add good wishes to all of us, to that all-inclusive "we, the people" which is charged with governing the United States of America. We, like the Catholic Church, must struggle to set ourselves on a safe and sustaining course into the future.
As we sail forward, Cardinal Zuppi's words are worth remembering. What do we search for? What will bring us "joy." What can sustain us in a time of challenge and of danger? Here's the answer:
Exactly The Opposite Of Individualism
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