Cardinal Timothy Dolan tells Christiane Amanpour: Next pope won’t be me

TIMOTHY DOLAN: Jesus provides for his church. There will be a new occupant to the chair of Peter. When I went up, Christiane, you were kind enough to ask about the personal meeting. And I went up and, I, first of all, I started to introduce myself and he said, “Oh, I know who you are,” and he called me by name. I like that when the boss knows your name.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Yes. Yes, indeedy.
TIMOTHY DOLAN: And then I said, “Holy Father, can I just tell you I love you very much and I thank you. And I’m praying with you and for you and I speak on behalf of all the people of the Archdiocese of New York.” And he said to me, “Well, I thank you.” And he said “I remember my visit to New York.”
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Well, that’s wonderful.
TIMOTHY DOLAN: So it was — it was very moving, Christiane.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: That is wonderful. And, of course I need to ask you now, in that vein, are you going to be the next pope? You are on many people’s lists of frontrunners.
TIMOTHY DOLAN: Well, I’ve been on my mom’s list for a while. But I don’t know how many other lists that I’ve been on. But I don’t think so. As you know — you’re a pro — that’s tough for us to talk about and it’s uncomfortable to talk about. I’m flattered that you would even think that, but I don’t think that’s a possibility.