Prayers, Pride In Philippine Papal Contender's Hometown

Fuente: International Business Times

Anna Fernandez, a candle vendor, has been watching the news from Rome with building anticipation, as Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle may be one of the favourites to be named the next pope AFP Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle may be one of the favourites to be named the next pope, but a Catholic Sister who has known him for half a century says she will never pray for it to happen. "I'm afraid of the politics in Rome," Sister Marilena Narvaez told AFP from their shared home neighbourhood, south of Manila. "I told him that I don't pray that he becomes a pope," said the 83-year-old, who once tutored a young Tagle for a spelling bee.