Italian bishops thank God for wrong pope

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Italian bishops thank God for wrong pope

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/italian-bishops-thank-god-wrong-pope-123001495.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/n0GIvtg6H_9Ox67w..7ZKg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-14T123001Z_1_CBRE92D0YQ400_RTROPTP_2_OUKOE-UK-POPE-MISTAKE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Newly elected Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican" align="left" title="Newly elected Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican" border="0" /></a>VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Italian bishops were so convinced that one of their own would become pope that they sent a congratulatory message to the media thanking God for the election of a prelate from Milan. The trouble was, the new pope had already been named as Argentinian cardinal Jorge Bergoglio. The secretary-general of the Italian conference, Monsignor Mariano Crociata, expressed &quot;joy and thanks&quot; to God for the election of Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan in a statement sent to reporters at 8:23 p.m. (7:23 p.m. British time) on Wednesday night. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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