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By Heiner Schimmöller, Alexander Smoltczyk and Peter Wensierski
The long illness and death of Pope John Paul II has unleashed battles over the future direction of the Catholic Church. Many cardinals now favor a successor who will be less concerned with publicity than with internal reform.
In a Spiegel Editorial
"For dignitaries in the Vatican, however, the act of public suffering during the pope's final days gradually became somewhat uncomfortable. "It would be a shame," Cardinal Joachim Ratzinger, an intimate of the pope said, "if this was the way we remembered him. It is degrading for him." The next pope, said another, "can't overexert himself in the same way that John Paul II has." And American Cardinal James Stafford asked "whether a church leader is well advised to be shown in such a weakened condition?"
Indeed, the longing behind the Vatican's walls for a different type of church leader, one less dominate than Pope John Paul II, is clearly palpable. Most of the cardinals would rather not have another media star who travels around the world as the church's representative. Instead, they want a religious role model. In other words: the sheep want a shepherd."
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