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Feel like the Vatican regret letting a more progressive one slip through.

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[–] someone@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

Sadly there's precedent. There was the famous case of the the German-born Cardinal Goestheveezell in being denied candidacy to the papacy in favour of the one who would later be known as John Paul II. Apparently nobody wanted to have to deal with jokes about Pope Goestheveezell.