Yes he had one candidate, if I understand correctly: Luis Antonio Tagle. He has a vision of a church adjacent to the poor and the working population in general though he seems regressive on LGBTQ. But going by the sign of times, it’ll probably be Raymond Burke. I suppose Vance visited the Vatikan to pave his way.

Personally I concur Danny DeVito would totally be the man for the job. He would gonna get real weird with it and he certainly doesn’t diddle kids.

More content than you ever could consume:

https://media.ccc.de/

It’s from all their camps, workshops, Erfa’s (Erfahrungsaustauschkreis) and especially the annual Chaos Communication Congress which is huge and attracts the scene worldwide.

The last congress was named 38C3: Illegal Instructions if you want to search on their media hub. A lot of the talks are in english.