明らかにする／漏らすd: The chain-smoking 聖職者の tipped to be the next leader of Britain's カトリック教徒s

By Jonathan Petre, Mail on Sunday Reporter
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大司教 Peter Smith is tipped to be the next leader of Britain's カトリック教徒s

A chain-smoking 大司教 could be the next leader of the Roman カトリック教徒 Church in England and むちの跡s.

Peter Smith, the 大司教 of Cardiff, is 現れるing as a strong 候補者 to 後継する 枢機けい／主要な Cormac Murphy-O’Connor when he retires in the new year.

によれば sources in Rome, 大司教 Smith, 65, is 存在 押し進めるd for the 重要な 地位，任命する by the Vatican’s 外交官／大使 in London, 大司教 Faustino Sainz Munoz, whose main 役割 is to advise ローマ法王 Benedict XVI on 任命s.

大司教 Smith is believed to have the 支援 of 枢機けい／主要な Murphy-O’Connor and has already impressed the Vatican by 扱うing Church （選挙などの）運動をするs against abortion, 安楽死 and gay 採択.

Insiders believe that he will 最高の，を越す a secret shortlist of three or four to be submitted to Rome by the Spanish-born 外交官／大使 in the next few weeks.

The ultimate 決定／判定勝ち（する） 残り／休憩（する）s with the ローマ法王 but the advice of 大司教 Munoz carries 抱擁する 負わせる.

大司教 Smith’s 任命 to lead the country’s 4.3million カトリック教徒s would surprise many as 63-year-old 大司教 Vincent Nichols of Birmingham has been the （疑いを）晴らす favourite.

Bookmaker 米，稲 力／強力にする still makes 大司教 Nichols the 前線 走者 at 13/8, with 大司教 Smith at 16/1.

枢機けい／主要な Murphy-O’Connor 申し込む／申し出 d his 辞職 when he reached the 退職 age of 75 in August 2007 but was asked to stay on until a 交替／補充 was 設立する. Insiders said the search has taken so long because the 外交官／大使 does not want the shortlist 拒絶するd.

It will be submitted before Christmas to the Vatican department 責任がある selecting bishops, which will recommend just one 指名する to the ローマ法王. He can 受託する it or ask for 代案／選択肢s.

Both 大司教s are competent TV performers, in contrast to the at times 滞るing 枢機けい／主要な Murphy-O’Connor.

大司教 Nichols is in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of カトリック教徒 education and fought off 政府 試みる／企てるs to 課す a 割当 of 非，不，無-Christian pupils on church schools.

大司教 Smith is 責任がある moral 問題／発行するs. Both 相続するd Archdioceses that had been 攻撃する，衝突する by child 乱用 スキャンダルs. A blot on 大司教 Smith’s 記録，記録的な／記録する is his mistake in 認可するing a 調書をとる／予約する that questioned Christ’s resurrection, for which he was upbraided by the Vatican.

Others tipped for the 地位，任命する 含む Bishop Arthur Roche of 物陰／風下d, 58, and 55-year-old Abbot Hugh Gilbert of the Benedictine Pluscarden Abbey at Elgin in the Scottish Highlands.


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