Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn listens to a journalist's question during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, after German-born Pope Benedict XVI's decision to step down. Schoenborn is among the contenders to be the pope's successor along with Cardinal Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan, and Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Canadian head of the Vatican's office for bishops. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)