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When Pope Francis' pontificate has passed, it's very likely that one of
the nineteen cardinals featured in these pages will be elected to become
the next Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, the spiritual leader of
over a billion Catholics and the most influential and widely respected
moral and religious figure in the world.
Yet outside the Vatican walls, despite the considerable roles that some
of these men play in the Church and in the world, few of them are known
by the public -- or even by their brother cardinals.
Hence this book, an engrossing and thoroughly documented instrument
through which a future pope may be known