Both Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo fielded questions from reporters about the possibility that Cardinal Dolan could become pope; on late-night television, Stephen Colbert offered his endorsement (what he called a "Colbert bump") for Cardinal Dolan for pope.
Cardinal Egan discussed the possibility of establishing a legal defense fund for falsely accused priests during a meeting with priests last month, but has made no decision, Mr. Zwilling said.
In the weeks since Pope Benedict XVI announced his intention to retire, the possibility that Cardinal Dolan could succeed him has been largely dismissed on the theory that his biggest strengths — outsize personality, Everyman affect, relentless public cheer — mark him as distinctively American in a way that makes it unlikely he would be chosen by his colleagues.
Several cardinals openly raised the possibility in the event John Paul became too ill to govern.
In interviews last week, several cardinals referred to the possibility that papal critics could be emboldened now that resignation is on the table.
That leaves the smaller European nations, notably Belgium whose Cardinal Godfried Danneels remains a possibility, despite a record of ill-health.
The Honduran cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga is a strong possibility.
Consistent with this possibility, Cheung & Cardinal (2005) have shown that HPC-lesioned rats display impulsive choice on an operant lever-response delay-discounting task, and are sensitive to increasing delays (showing increased preference for the immediate LR choice as delays on the HR option get longer), but with their delay HR choice function shifted to the left.
Other enzymes known to be involved, including kynurenine formamidase (KF, KFase) [ 52, 60] and phenoxazinone synthase (POS) [ 52] were not deteced (although the possibility that the cardinal gene may encode for POS has been suggested [ 56- 58]).
He was also the first to consider the possibility of an "exorbitant" cardinal, namely a weakly inaccessible, i.e., a regular cardinal that is not a successor (a cardinal α is called regular if decomposing α into a sum of smaller cardinals requires α-many such numbers).
Now, experts said, Cardinal Trujillo's remarks raise the possibility that being involved in stem cell research might be added to the category.
