[sinkspur]

How does the fact that "most Americans are fluent only in English" have any bearing on any one particular individual who would be a candidate to the papacy?

JPII has demonstrated that his successors will have to be linguists. The only American cardinal who speaks a second language fluently is Mahoney, the language being Spanish.

[B Knotts]

Cardinal Egan is also supposed to be fluent in Spanish, and some other languages.

Several of the other American Cardinals are fluent in Latin. Remember that language?