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This in turn revived the old Roman axiom, "A Pope is not elected against the Curia." Active and retired Italians with Curial experience, and the skill in papal politics that goes with it, far outnumber non-Italians. Ethnic solidarity enhances the prospects of three Curial Italians: Sebastiano Baggio, 65; Paolo Bertoli, 70; and Sergio Pignedoli, 68. At the same time, Curial clout damages the candidacy of Argentina's Eduardo Pirono, who is Italian descended but heartily disliked by many of his fellow Cardinals in the Vatican because he is an individualist and an outsider. (Besides that...
...long-running political crisis. Communists control Rome and most of Italy's other major cities and are inching ever closer toward participation in the national government. For that reason, many analysts assume that a non-Italian is simply inconceivable. The crisis, however, cuts both ways. One American with Curial experience says that Italian bishops tell him that a non-Italian Pope is needed to shield the office from entanglement in no-win national disputes. Besides, remarks Jesuit James C. Carter (no kin), president of Loyola University of New Orleans, "the church is going to project a parochial image as long...
...greater than in any previous conclave, nearly twice the number who voted in 1963 in Pope Paul's election. With that increase has come an explosion of candidates. Observes Paulist Father Thomas Stransky, a former member of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity and longtime Curial insider: "There is such a wide spread that it is impossible to say whose name will finally come...
...Pius XII. Though bred to the Curia, Paul VI so cherished his nine years as Archbishop of Milan that he determined that future Cardinals, even career Curia men, should have at least one good stretch of pastoral work. Most of the leading contenders are men with both pastoral and Curial experience...
...should accept critically the findings of contemporary science; he should abandon the outmoded curial style and should speak credibly in the language of people in this...