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By Rachel Zoll / The Bulletin
February 17, 2013
NEW YORK — Conventional wisdom holds that no one from the United States could be elected pope, that the superpower has more than enough worldly influence without an American in the seat of St. Peter.
But after Pope Benedict XVI’s extraordinary abdication, church analysts are....