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Fascinating! Thanks for the deep dive. For some reason this reminds me of Ed's comment on the podcast some time ago about how Cardinal Becciu was confused by the reaction to his nepotistic awarding of no-bid construction contracts because it's not such a big deal in Italy and I imagine Europe generally, at least to folks of a certain age.

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I love it. What a great collection of facts and stories

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Won't there be 226 cardinals, with the 20 added tomorrow? And 132 cardinal electors?

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Fantastic work and extremely interesting! Thank you.

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