Cardinal Angelo Scola is affable and runs the archdiocese of Milan – Italy's largest – and before that Venice, both of which have produced several popes.
He is not from the Vatican bureaucracy.
Cardinal Odilo Scherer seems to be favoured by the Vatican bureaucracy. The Brazilian sat on the governing commission of the scandal-marred Vatican bank.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York is a favourite of the pastoral camp. A well-known religious figure in the US, he's been called a happy warrior for evangelisation but is a staunch defender of Catholic orthodoxy.
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