What's certain: The papal conclave will be a contest between two competing visions of Catholicism

The papal conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will soon be underway in Rome .

Frida Ghitis: Cardinals from all over the world, 135 of whom are eligible to cast a vote, are now traveling to the Vatican .

She says the conclave will be a contest between two competing visions of Catholicism.

Ghitis says the liberalism of Pope Francis is passing away, but the way forward is the way back.

In America , somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 adults were baptized into the Catholic Church at Easter this year .

They seek something solid and unchanging and true amid uncertainty and falsity of modern life.

Many of them were inspired by the Traditional Latin Mass that Francis so despised.

The conclave in Rome is the battleground where this contest between the recent past and the emerging future of Catholic Church will take place.