Word: schwartzmeier
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...John Schwartzmeier some years ago proposed George William Cardinal Mundelein. During the critical stage of Pius XI's late illness, talk in the Vatican was that a substantial party of cardinals favored de-Italianizing the papacy, trying out a U. S. pope in full knowledge that even a fiasco would make little difference in the Church's long history. In disregard of the fact that comparatively young, vigorous cardinals are most papabile, the U. S. candidate was supposed to be New York's frail, 69-year-old Patrick Cardinal Hayes...
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