I’m no canon law expert, but I’m pretty sure there’s no requirement that the pope be a cardinal prior to election, so casting a bigger net and looking at non-Cardinals for the papacy is just a matter of the cardinal electors being humble enough to say “none of us has what the church needs right now, let’s look outside our own ranks.”
I think the area that needs the most clean-up is the Curia...it’s become a dumping ground for priests and bishops who have disgraced themselves and need to be put somewhere out of the way.
On top of that, there are probably a lot of good priests in there doing purely administrative work while there are parishes out there struggling without a priest.
Aside from the handful of positions that absolutely require a priest or bishop, there’s no reason why many of these functions couldn’t be performed by lay people.
He’s expected to announce that the law no longer applies to Democrats, Never-Trumpers or celebrities, assuming of course that their motives were ‘patriotic’ in nature.
This article may just as well have been written about the United Church of Canada.
The United Church of Canada started out with the admirable goal of uniting the various “flavors” of Presbyterianism and Methodism that were largely splintered along ethnic/cultural lines when Canada was still a young country, emphasizing unity in the essentials of doctrine and grace in non-essentials of practice and preference.
Now it’s not even recognizable as “Christian” and is pretty much just the “Spiritual” wing of the NDP.