Prayers, pride in Philippine papal contender's hometown


Sister Marilena Narvaez, who has known Tagle for half a century, says she will never pray for him to be selected as the new Pope. - AFP

IMUS, Philippines: 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.

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