My son's no pope - candidate's mum says
2013-03-13 21:04
Vienna - Many parents would be delighted to have their
son become pope - not so Eleonore Schoenborn, mother of Austrian candidate
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn.
"Being pope would be too much for Christoph, it
would be much too difficult for him," the 92-year-old told Austrian daily
Kronen-Zeitung in an interview.
"He is too good for the job."
She said that even now, she only manages to travel to the
capital Vienna from her home in Schruns in western Austria to see her
68-year-old son once a year.
"If he really does go to Rome, I will never see him
again. I'm too old for a journey like that. It would be goodbye forever,"
she said.
Schoenborn is seen as an outside candidate to become pope
since he would be the second German-speaking pontiff in a row after the German
Benedict XVI, the younger man's mentor.
Benedict, 85, abruptly resigned last month, saying he had
become too weak in body and mind to keep up with a fast-changing modern world.
