Word: aloisio
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...appointments have stirred up new speculation about whether Paul's eventual successor might be non-Italian. Jan Cardinal Willebrands, 66, primate of the Dutch church, is, by Vatican consensus, the leading non-Italian papabile. He has gained a potential backer with the appointment of Aloisio Lorscheider, the influential president of the Brazilian hierarchy and fellow specialist in ecumenism. One of the new cardinals might later become papabile himself: England's Basil Hume (TIME, March 1), 53, who has undergone a breathtaking rise from Benedictine abbot to Archbishop of Westminster to cardinal in less than three months' time...