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Pope John Paul II picked 22 new cardinals . He has now picked 106 of the 123 cardinals who will elect the next pope.
With its characteristic accent on youth, the church prohibits cardinals over 80 to hold certain offices or vote for a new pope.
The backspin: The United States and Canada have gained more cardinals, and to woo them, candidates for the papacy will have to be more sensitive to American Catholics' dissent from papal teachings on divorce, remarriage, and women in the priesthood.
At their best, the popes and cardinals replaced military conquest by moral leadership and persuasion; at their worst, they could show the same hunger for political power and worldly wealth as any caesar or grand duke.
Like the catholic cardinals of the 17th century, many of the feted celebrities of the 21st are now engaged in spreading the word.