Prayers pour in for Asian cardinal to lead the Catholic faith

Hometown hopeful: People attending a mass at the Imus Cathedral in Imus in the province of Cavite. Tagle may be one of the favourites to be named the next pope. — AFP

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 said from their shared home neighbourhood, south of Manila.