Can someone who is significantly older than me please remind me: I seem to remember Karol Wojtyla being a complete surprise to the media when he was made[1] pope; admittedy his becoming Pope JP2 was very shortly after the death of JP1 who in turn shocked shocked the media (and possibly himself) by dying only a month or so after the previous one, Paul VI.
All that said, though: if I am correct in remembering Karol Wojtyla as a complete outsider to the race for the Papacy, I shall ignore the next week or so’s chat about “front runners” and just wait until the next one comes along…
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[1] What’s the proper verb to create a pope? I believe you don’t crown them, nor knight, dub, or any of the other royal-related verbs; you could take the noun-to-verb solution and “pope” someone (leading to the possibility of the past tense usage, eg: “He got poped in ’78”) – but I am sure there has to be a more elegant term than “made” …
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