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Dolfan in NYC

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I guess the most positive thing you can say about him is that he knew his place as pope, that he mostly got "the job" as respect for his predecessor and a pope to hold the position just for a couple of years and did not overstay his welcome (not on this world, as a pope). In German there is the term "Übergangspapst" - literally "transitional pope"; the term was initially used for John XXIII but was also invoked for Benedict XVI, an old guy who is expected to leave things as they are for a couple of years while the different parties within the college of cardinals can organize themselves to come up with a strong candidate after a long pontificate - John Paul II in Ratzinger's case, Pius XII for Roncalli.

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