Cardinals arrive to attend a mourning Mass for Pope Francis : REUTERS
There is no rule that cardinals electing a new pope vote a certain way according to their nationality or tomorrow to choose a new leader of the 1.4-billion strong Catholic Church.
A cardinal who heads the Vatican’s liturgy office might have a very different set of concerns than the archbishop of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. A cardinal who runs a large European archdiocese with hundreds of priests likely has other priorities than the Vatican ambassador ministering to war-torn Syria or the archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua whose church has been under siege by the government.
