Just days before the Cardinals began to choose the new Pope, an NBC newsman in Rome telephoned Venice's Albino Cardinal Luciani to ask for some biographical background. With self-effacing humor, Luciani observed: "There is a Class A list of candidates, a Class B list of candidates, and a Class C list of candidates. I am surely on the Class C list." His fellow Cardinals, obviously disagreeing, last week moved Albino Luciani to the head of the class.
Unlike his recent predecessors, the new Pontiff has never been a Vatican...
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