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Lima, Peru, Feb 21, 2013 \/ 12:04 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani of Lima, Peru, discouraged a spirit of intrigue surrounding the upcoming conclave and said the new Pope will be chosen with God\u2019s help, regardless of nationality.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI think that geography has nothing to do with it,\u201d the cardinal said on Feb. 16. \u201cThe right person needs to be sought out with the help of God, regardless of where he is from.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tResponding to media questions about whether the new Pope should be from Latin America, he explained that \u201cgeographical or political considerations are not going to be part of the conclave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tWhile he said that it is \u201cunderstandable that there are people who think this way,\u201d he warned that it is not good for the media to promote this understanding or to make bets or create \u201cintrigue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe action of the Holy Spirit will help the cardinals \u201cto be men who listen to God,\u201d he emphasized. \u201cIf not, we serve for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tExpressing faith and acceptance at the news of the Holy Father\u2019s upcoming resignation due to old age and declining strength, he voiced hope that \u201cwe cardinals now can respond to God as well, whom we ask to enlighten us to know which way we have to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tCardinal Cipriani said that he personally would not like to be Pope.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI think it\u2019s really tough and requires a lot of preparation,\u201d he observed. \u201cAnd I think there are others who are better prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe went on to tell reporters that one of the challenges facing the Church is today is that \u201cthe world does not believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThere is too much self-sufficiency, too much \u2018I don\u2019t need God, I\u2019m not interested,\u2019\u201d he said, adding that those in power \u201chave structured society in such a way as to make it very difficult to live humanely, let alone in a Christian way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe need to recover the human dimension: the respect for life, the respect for the family and the respect for the truth,\u201d the cardinal continued. \u201cAn attitude has set in that is excessively contrary to the human being, despite all the talk about human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tToday\u2019s society faces a \u201ccrisis of faith\u201d that can only be solved by responding to the personal call to conversion, he said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe great missionary figures who have kept the Church going are saints.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lima, Peru, Feb 21, 2013 \/ 12:04 pm (CNA\/EWTN News).- Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani of Lima, Peru, discouraged a spirit of intrigue surrounding the upcoming conclave and said the new Pope will be chosen with God’s help, regardless of nationality.<\/p>\n

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