ROME
Boston Herald
[with video]
By
Matt Stout / Boston Herald
The Italian press and its leak-fueled coverage of the cardinal confabs continued to breathe life into the once-unthinkable possibility of an American pope, with one noted member of the Vaticanisti trotting out not only Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley but now New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan as rising contenders for St. Peter’s Chair.
On a day with little news emerging from within the Vatican’s walls, the buzz over Americans not only kept its legs, but seemingly gained momentum among Italian reporters, who continued to serve as pace-setters in the hunt for Vatican information since Wednesday’s media blackout.
Sandro Magister, a respected reporter at the Italian magazine Espresso, gushed over the capabilities of Dolan, the gregarious former rector of the Pontifical North American College, while mentioning O’Malley as another possibility.
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