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How come that empty papal chair has become so widely interpreted as symbolic, even sinister? Is this part of a curial anti-Francis conspiracy?
What exactly is the meaning of that ‘Enigma of the Empty Chair’? Everyone seems agreed that there must be one
William Oddie

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