The pool of possible future popes has expanded beyond anyone's imagination. I think it's an interesting facet of the recent history of the papacy that the pool of possible popes has expanded beyond anyone's imagination in say the first Conclave of 1978. I mean in...

The next electorate will be the most diverse in the history of papal conclaves; diverse geographically, ethnically, racially. I do think there's still a kind of bottom threshold. I don't think we're gonna see a pope elected who's in his late 50s or maybe even early...

George Weigel discusses what the next pope should be doing in an attempt to link future to past and present. It's important to distinguish what I've done here from what (indistinct) and (indistinct) did in the past. They were publishing scorecards and racing forms ......