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With various legal cases pending against the pope and the Vatican in the United States, it would make sense for the pontiff to have his own lawyer in this country. Well, he does. From the Washington Post: This is a bad time for Jeffrey Lena to have quit caffeine. In Kentucky, the 51-year-old attorney is…