Isn't the next Pope supposed to be named Peter or Pedro or some variant?
Doesn’t stand a chance. He was openly campaigning for it and even if it were true that it’s not wrong to campaign for the office, being foolish enough not to know that it’s a deal-breaker is, in his case, a deal-breaker.
Moreover, his line about “doctrinal orthodoxy but openness to updating the Church to conform to modern culture” is a DoA campaign platform. The idea that there’s some kind of narrowly pigeonholed “doctrinal orthodoxy” that’s different from cultural updating fails to grasp that the theological wars are also the culture wars and cannot be otherwise.
To elect someone as pope who doesn’t “get it” in those matters would be a disaster and there are enough JPII and B16 cardinals who know that “it’s all about the culture wars, stupid.”
If they want an affirmative action African to silence all the affirmative actioneers in the MSM (which they are not so stupid as to want), they can elect Arinze.
Or Malcom Cardinal Ranjith.
The plumping for Turkson in the MSM was nothing other than a head-feint by the MSM. They pushed his “candidacy” so that when he’s not elected, as he will not be, they can then browbeat the Church for being racist for not electing the MSM African favorite.
Even if Arinze were to be elected, the stories would then come out that he’s not “really black” and not “really African” because he spent so much time in Rome in the curia.
He’d be portrayed as JPII’s little lap-dog black “boy.”
They only want an African pope if he’s ideologically in their camp. Anyone else will be “not really African.”