00:00Why is Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle traveling with Pope Francis as he visits Asia-Pacific
00:05countries?
00:06Many Filipino Catholics asked this when they saw Tagle photographed with the Pope aboard
00:10the Papal Plane.
00:12The answer?
00:13Tagle is part of the Vatican bureaucracy.
00:15He is, in fact, its third-highest official.
00:18In December 2019, Pope Francis named Tagle one of two pro-prefects of the Dicastery for
00:22Evangelization, now the Vatican's most important department.
00:26This has many Filipinos thinking Tagle could become the next pontiff, but Tagle is known
00:31to shrug off these speculations.
00:33Pope Francis is visiting Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and Singapore.
00:38The local bishop's council says he is skipping the Philippines because he already came in
00:422015, and the object of the trip are countries where Catholics are a minority.
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