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-by Alex Mangini, Staff Writer
As the world waits for the Catholic cardinals in the Vatican to select the church’s next pope, President Barack Obama weighed in on the matter in an interview with CBS, expressing his desire to see an American at the top of the Papacy.
”It seems to me that an American pope would preside just as effectively as a Polish pope or an Italian pope or a Guatemalan pope,” Obama told George Stephanopoulos.
“I don’t know if you’ve checked lately, but the Conference of Catholic Bishops here in the United States don’t seem to be takin’ orders from me,” Obama continued. “
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