Word: papabilis
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...possibilities have always been easily narrowed down to a chosen few: not since Urban VI (1378-89) has there been a Pope who was not a cardinal; not since Adrian VI of Holland (1522-23) has the church had a non-Italian Pontiff. But this time there are more papabili than Roman handicappers can readily rate. Next week's conclave, with 79 cardinals,-will be the largest since election of the Pope became the exclusive prerogative of the cardinals in the 12th century...
Decision & Enemies. Among the Curia papabili, Amleto Cicognani, 80, the Vatican's Secretary of State under
...Holy Father") that one listener was moved to observe:"You could almost hear the Pope breathe." After the Pope's death,† the mills ground out rumor (e.g., that the Pope's secret diaries had been stolen) and worked up enough "dope" stories discussing the "papabili" of the church's 53 cardinals to bring a public remonstrance from the Vatican...
...Italians last week were looking increasingly papabili (eligible for the papacy). To the top of the list moved the name of Cardinal Villeneuve of Quebec, a French-speaking churchman removed from the controversies of European politics. The same consideration held for another non-Italian-French-born Cardinal Tisserant, for years a Vatican librarian and now secretary of the Vatican's Oriental Congregation...