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Though University presidents and deans of the Faculty usually stay at their posts for at least a decade, it is not out of the ordinary for the GSAS dean to leave after a shorter term. Previous GSAS Dean Christoph J. Wolff served for seven years...
...CHRISTOPH SCHONBORN, 60, Archbishop of Vienna. Wojtyla-esque charisma with a nice touch of noble blood. Master linguist and stalwart on doctrine...
...reach the two-thirds threshold. Assuming that Ratzinger truly is not angling for the job, one lingering question is: Who is his preferred candidate? Three Cardinals who enjoy particular respect from their German colleague are India's Ivan Dias, Mexico City's Norberto Rivera Carrera and Vienna's Christoph Schonborn. An Italian in synch with the German's theology is Angelo Scola of Venice. But in the meantime, Happy Birthday Cardinal Ratzinger...
...Cardinals who are often tagged with the word charismatic are Honduras' OSCAR RODRIGUEZ MARADIAGA and Austria's CHRISTOPH SCHONBORN. The first is a polymath with a c.v. that includes eight languages, debt-relief work with the rock star Bono, some music playing of his own and what an observer calls an "effervescence." The second possesses a different charm (see box). The cosmopolitan scion of generations of European and Catholic nobility, he has what John Allen, author of Conclave, called a "princely bearing," which has kept him in good stead among world leaders. Never before have musical chops and impressive posture...
...Christoph Cardinal Schönborn was standing tall among the faithful. Just minutes after John Paul II's funeral ended, the 60-year-old Austrian was moving briskly through a thick crowd along the ancient Borgo Santo Spirito. With his flowing scarlet robes, robust frame and handsome features, the Austrian Cardinal attracted calls of "Cardinale, Cardinale" from several young Italians, even though they seemed not to know which Cardinal he was. But my colleague Jordan Bonfante and I knew, and we followed...