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"He wants to be collegial. He wants the advice of cardinals," Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said in a news conference at the Pontifical North American College one day after the papal election. "That for me is one of the great things."
The former German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected in a swift conclave that ended on Tuesday, just a day after it began.
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