Cardinal Angelo Scola was considered a front runner at the last papal election. After the white smoke appeared, the Italian bishops’ conference mistakenly put out a communiqué congratulating him on his election. But he remained the man who, as the old line has it, entered the conclave as pope and left it as cardinal.
Now a book-length interview with Scola has been issued by Solferino, the publishing arm of the Milan-based paper Corriere della Sera. Ho Scommesso sulla Libertà (“I Bet on Liberty”) invites speculation about how a Pope Scola would have differed from Pope Francis.
