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...palpable star quality-his strong point-could prove more important than either age or health. Said the African Curialist, Bernardin Gantin, "All the Cardinals have seen and lived the charisma of John Paul. Those great crowds of people will be present at this conclave." Remarked a leading Italian Jesuit: "Better than a medical test, they should give each papabile [candidate] a TV test...
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...news circled the world, most Catholics admitted knowing little about their new leader. London's Sunday Times headlined him as THE UNKNOWN POPE. "We have never heard of him here," said James Reuter, a leading Jesuit in the Philippines. But he added, "At least we are thankful it is not some of the others." In Little Rock, Ark., Bishop Andrew J. McDonald heard the news from a priest and was forced to look up Luciani in a church directory. The rapid decision, quipped the bishop, "just shows that the Holy Spirit is quicker than the speed of light...
Luciani, who lived in the patriarchal palace next to St. Mark's Basilica, loved to exercise by walking or riding a bicycle through the city's streets! Jesuit Theologian Herbert Ryan of Los Angeles' Loyola Marymount University recalls how, carrying a cake in a pink box for the participants, Luciani once walked 25 minutes from his residence to the meeting of an ecumenical commission...
...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 as we give the feeling there is something intrinsically Italian about...