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What LI's Catholics want from the next pope

The Archbishop of New York, cardinal Timothy Dolan,

Photo credit: Getty Images | The Archbishop of New York, cardinal Timothy Dolan, second from left, and the former Archbishop of Philadelphia, Cardinal Justin Rigali, second from right, arrive at the Paul VI hall for the opening of the Cardinals' Congregations in Vatican City, Vatican. (Mar. 4, 2013)

As 115 cardinal-electors gather in Rome to choose who will lead the world's 1.18 billion Catholics, chatter among Long Island's 1.7 million faithful Saturday mirrored some of the ecclesiastical questions the next pope must answer.

How best to reach wayward Catholics? Should the church ease, maintain or harden its stances on hot-button social issues including abortion, birth control and gay...

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