Perspective : Who Will Follow in John Paul's Footsteps ; Next Week the Election Process to Choose a New Pope Begins in Earnest. Here Peter Jennings, Spokesman for the Archbishop of Birmingham, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Casts His Eye Over the Candidates

Birmingham Post › April 15, 2005

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Already in the months proceeding the death of Pope John Paul II at 9.37pm (Rome time) on Saturday, April 2 there was growing speculation in the media as to which cardinals would emerge as frontrunners in the subsequent Conclave.

Understandably, this speculation increased in the days following the death of Pope John Paul the Great, as he is now referred to by millions of Catholics throughout the world.

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Perspective : Who Will Follow in John Paul's Footsteps ; Next Week the Election Process to Choose a New Pope Begins in Earnest. Here Peter Jennings, Spokesman for the Archbishop of Birmingham, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Casts His Eye Over the Candidates

During the Sixth General Congregation, held in the New Synod Hall on Saturday April 9, the day after the Funeral Mass in St Peter's Square, the College of Cardinals, warmly thanked the media for its sensiti...

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