He was well known as a major Germanophile ... and early in his "career" he served as the Papal Nuncio to Bavaria (and effectively to Germany and Prussia as well), from 1917 to 1929, so he would have had 12 years to become comfortable with German.
I am aware of that. My point was that his German was formidable.
If Newchurch was seeking to persuade Anglophones of the correctness of the new religion (and that's what it is), they needed to elect a Pope who was fluent in English, which is the
lingua franca of many countries, not just the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. Francis's command of English, by his own admission, is not all that good.
Perhaps trying to make a point that the Anglosphere isn't all that important? (But don't forget that the Philippines, which is very much the model Newchurch country, docile, poor, uncritically accepting of Vatican II and the Novus Ordo, in love with Francis like a teenage schoolgirl with posters of boy band idols on her bedroom wall, of huge numbers, and of color, has English as its
lingua franca too.)
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