By SHARON OTTERMAN
Published: February 12, 2013
The likelihood of Cardinal Dolan’s becoming the next pope is low, many religious scholars say. “I would put him in the — what’s less than a dark horse?” category, said Christopher M. Bellitto, a papal historian at Kean University in New Jersey.
“He is arguably going to be, if he is not already, the voice and face of the American church, though whether he can translate that to higher office is another matter,” Professor Bellitto said.
The Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, put Cardinal Dolan’s odds at “100 to 1.” But, he added, “Anything can happen.”
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