There's some talk in St. Blogs regarding Andrew Sullivan's article that says something like the next Pope might make this one seem like a liberal. The context is that the center of Christianity is shifting to the developing world and the Christianity in these areas is more conservative.

It is true that the Christianity of say Africa or Latin America or some of Asia is very conservative, but it is a different kind of conservatism than you'd find in the US or in Europe. For one, they are more culturally attune and accepting of different models of viewing the Church, theology, worship, etc and also, issues of social justice. So even if the next Pope, or subsequent Popes are conservative because they hail from one of the aforementioned regions, they more hold the party line on issues like women's ordination, etc, but they'll but open to radical changes in worship, theology etc.