Pope Francis Dead: Top 5 Contenders for Next Pope, How a New Pope Is Chosen | Ep 112

The Liz Wheeler Show

Blaze Media

Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.9 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today on the show, Liz Wheeler reacts to the death of Pope Francis. What legacy has he left behind? Was Pope Francis an actual Marxist? Why did legacy media consider him to be a progressive pope? What is a “papal conclave,” and does the Holy Spirit really guide the College of Cardinals? All that and more! SPONSORS: ALL FAMILY PHARMACY: Because you’re part of this movement, use code LIZ10 at checkout for an exclusive discount. Check out https://allfamilypharmacy.com/LIZ, code: LIZ10. PREBORN: Your tax-deductible donation of twenty-eight dollars sponsors one ultrasound and doubles a baby’s chance at life. How many babies can you save? Please donate your best gift today– just dial #250 and say the keyword, “BABY" or go to https://preborn.com/LIZ. CROWD HEALTH: Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months. Go to https://JoinCrowdHealth.com and use promo code “LIZ”. CrowdHealth is not insurance. AMERICAN HARTFORD GOLD: American Hartford Gold: Tell them I sent you, and they’ll give you up to $15,000 dollars of FREE silver on your first order. So call them now! Click here https://offers.americanhartfordgold.com/liz or call 866-996-5172 or text LIZ to 998899. BLAZETV: If you’re ready to keep winning, shop your values and make sure we don’t lose the ground we’ve gained—go to https://BlazeTV.com/liz and subscribe today. Use promo code LIZ, and you’ll save 20 bucks right now off our annual plan. BlazeTV. Unfiltered. Unafraid. On Demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Happy Easter Monday. There's a little bit of a cloud over this Easter Monday celebration
0:35.1	because Pope Francis, the vicar of Christ, the chair of St. Peter,
0:40.2	the Bishop of Rome, has died. He was 88 years old when he died. I thought going into this Easter
0:46.0	Monday that the story about Pope Francis on the show today was going to revolve around his visit
0:50.2	with Vice President J.D. Vance. And there was some fake news around that visit but apparently pope
0:56.0	francis was in incredibly poor health when he blessed the crowds yesterday on easter sunday and he died
1:02.6	today at the age of 88 so i want to start the show we're going to get into all the questions today
1:07.4	of what the process of picking a new pope what what does that look like? What is it involved?
1:12.4	There's a lot of secrecy. There's actually an oath of secrecy that goes into that process.
1:16.9	We're going to talk about what we know about the process. We're going to talk about who's going to
1:20.4	be the next pope, who are the top contenders. I know a lot of us are hoping for a more conservative
1:24.8	theological or a theologically conservative leaning pope.
1:28.9	We're going to talk about who some of the contenders are and what the
1:31.2	makeup of the College of Cardinals, which is the
1:33.6	group of church officials who elect a new pope,
1:36.7	what that group looks like.
1:38.5	So we can try to guess how they might vote and who they might
1:42.1	elect as new pope.
1:43.2	We're also going to talk about the legacy of Pope Francis. Was he a good Pope? Was he a good man who was simply naive about the media?
1:50.6	Or was he a Marxist in his theology and his politics? We're going to get into all of that. But I'd
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