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Not likely. The most likely Cardinals to be Pope are all liberals. The furthest right that have a realistic chance, given the Cardinal College being stacked with liberals, are Parolin and Turkson as far as I can tell. They're not very likely to continue trying to open up spaces for LGBTQ people in the Church, and probably will say many more things like what Francis has said about 'gender ideology.' More likely still, IMO, are Pizzaballa, Tagle, and other liberals who I think probably would continue Francis' efforts and might go further. I think it's extremely unlikely that we get another JPII or Benedict XVI kind of Pope who writes encyclical after encyclical condemning any kind of movement towards tolerance and reform.
They won't let him in for the name alone
Sadly, they pick a less awesome name when they become pope
Oh yeah, forgot that
Sadly there's precedent. There was the famous case of the the German-born Cardinal Goestheveezell in being denied candidacy to the papacy in favour of the one who would later be known as John Paul II. Apparently nobody wanted to have to deal with jokes about Pope Goestheveezell.
Well he's required to choose a Pope name to be called by so it's not really a problem
So also likely the next Pope will not be a Zionist either?
Depends, Zionist by what metric? Pizzaballa is the one who's the most pro-Palestine, yet he's still a Zionist in the sense that he's affirmed Israel's right to "defend itself proportionally." Does that outweigh his outreach and support for Palestinians? I'm personally biased and I definitely think there's room to argue either way on whether that's sufficient for someone who's supposed to be a moral authority. As far as I'm concerned, though, as far as liberals go these are quite decent.