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 The Italian Bishops' Conference Wednesday sent a congratulatory email to one of their own, Milan Cardinal Scola
-- tipped as a hot conclave favorite. They quickly corrected themselves and issued a new message to the real winner, Argentine Jorge Bergoglio.
Conventional wisdom had it that a quick result -- and this conclave was quick, with the white smoke coming on just the second day
-- could only mean consensus had built around a top name.
Churches in Milan also seem to have gotten it wrong: They sent bells pealing shortly before the announcement
''Habemus Papam!" -- ''We have a pope!"
Once again, the old adage holds: Enter the conclave a pope, leave a cardinal.
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