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baptized Catholic male, the last time a non-cardinal was elected pope was in the 1378 conclave. Observers of papal elections tend to consider, by a variety of criteria, some cardinals to be more likely to become pope than the othersthese are the papabili, the plural for papabile, an Italian word loosely translated as "pope-able". Since the set of papabili is a matter of speculation from the press, the election of

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