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Word: papabilis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: According to Custom | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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