UNITED STATES
NBC Chicago
New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan says Catholics could see a non-European Pope emerge this March when white smoke pours from a Vatican smokestack.
“It’s highly possible,” Dolan said on his New York radio show. “To think that there might be a pope from North America, to think that there might be a pope from Latin America, a pope from Asia, a pope from Africa. I think that’s possible, don’t you.?”
One possibility that Dolan downplayed, however, is speculation over his ascendance.
“I could be the next shortstop of the Yankees too,” he said when asked if he might preside over the Catholic faith after Benedict.
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