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Bologna’s Lercaro pointed to a papacy 50 years before its time

In a sense, Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro of Bologna could have been Pope Francis a half-century before the fact, since he was a serious candidate to be pope in the 1962 conclave, reportedly drawing around 20 votes at his peak, before giving way to St. Paul VI instead.

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