I find it hard to conceive how a string of terrorist attacks can sway the collective will of the conclave. The writers went a little overboard with the virtue signaling.
I am in no way trying to belittle or diminish the potential of Benitez, but he really just arrived in the Vatican. No one knows OF him, let alone knowing him well enough to vouch for him.
For the same reason that a person should not be disqualified because of…