Who is Cardinal Matteo Zupi, a possible contender for the next Pope?
When the Archbishop of Bologna, Matteo Zuppi, received the red hat of his cardinal on October 5, 2019, his day ended with a mass celebrated in the square of the Basilica of Santa Maria a Trastevere, a neighborhood of Rome where he found his direction as a teenager and later served as a priest."My life, or rather life itself, is always made up of so many pieces that have modeled us and are part of me," said Cardinal Zuppi, now 69, during his homily that evening. "Today I can see, and I believe that we all see him, the joy of being together like a piece of our common life, exactly the opposite of individualism."Many of those gathered to wish him well during that mass knew from his days as a teenage volunteer for the community of Sant'Egidio, a Catholic charity organization known for havi...










