As Simon Caldwell recently argued in the Catholic Herald, British prelate – Cardinal Arthur Roche – is now a potential candidate to succeed Pope Francis. As Caldwell argued, “there is now a real prospect of a second English pope” and one “who was also chosen to deliver a fawning speech of welcome and thanksgiving during the ceremony to replenish the College of Cardinals.” Failing that, the cardinal could be in the running to succeed Cardinal Nichols as Archbishop of Westminster, which would give him an even more prominent role in his home country. In the meantime, the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments “is increasingly being whispered in Vatican circles as a possible compromise candidate who could emerge from a conclave to choose a successor to Pope Francis.”