Fifteen years to the day that he became a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, Chicago's Cardinal Francis George said he wouldn't rule out the possibility of a fellow American becoming pope.

During and after a lecture at Loyola University Chicago School of Law on Thursday, George said New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley and a number of other international cardinals whose names have been bandied about as contenders are indeed "plausible candidates" to lead the church.

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