Who is the papal candidate whose election would cause the most glee among conservative American Catholics? What new pope would approximate the dancing-in-the-aisles feeling they had on April 19, 2005, when Ratzinger strode onto the papal balcony? Surely it’s Raymond Cardinal Burke, the U.S.-born Vatican official. Talk to conservative Catholics, and you will find the quite prevalent view that Wow, Burke would be so terrific, but that can’t happen, it’s way too much to hope for. (Which is pretty much what they felt about Ratzinger eight years ago!) It has been conventional wisdom that Burke is not a serious papal contender, but blogger Taylor Marshall has written a thought-provoking post outlining ten reasons that Burke will be elected. Some of Marshall’s reasons are tongue-in-cheek (one of them mentions his penchant for elaborate liturgical vestments), but most of them are quite serious.
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