BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald

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Laurel J. Sweet / Boston Herald

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley is “relieved” all speculation as to his papal potential is behind him with yesterday’s election of Pope Francis of Argentina, according to Bishop Robert P. Deeley, who spoke with O’Malley this morning.

“I spoke to the cardinal this morning and he is just very happy. He’s relieved, first of all, and he’s happy in the choice,” Deeley told reporters at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End, where he presided over a small, multiracial Mass of Thanksgiving in honor of the pope, the 76-year-old leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.

Deeley said the cardinal was “relieved in the sense that there was so much speculation that he would be elected pope..

“And it’s a heavy burden,” he added. “It’s a very heavy burden. I think Cardinal Sean really…