The Papal Conclave Has Begun

And: Francis's Managerialism; Shiloh Hendrix's Meaning; Triumph Of The Traumatic

The papal conclave began in Rome today. What are your thoughts about who should become the next pope, and the kind of pope the Catholic Church needs now? The German Catholic newspaper Tagespost asked me for my views. Here, in English, is what I told them:

I am not a Catholic, but I am a Christian, and a man of the West. The survival of Western civilizati…