Wednesday, March 13, 2013
habemus papam
"Do you accept the duties of the new pope?"
"As what will you be known?"
These are the questions asked to the man in the Sistine Chapel today after winning a 2/3 vote as the man chosen by God to be successor to St Peter's.
This is what happens right before I heard Steve Washington of Inside Edition on New York's upper West Side.
The bells of St. Peter's Square can be heard around the world as this clear skied day in NYC replicates the white smoke of the Vatican. After receiving the papal robes from the Room of Tears, he will emerge to Rome, to the Catholic Church and to the world as our mortal father with "full supreme and universal authority."
Speculation is that the man who will emerge onto the square will be one which was projected, considering the decision came after only two days in conclave.Only five ballots were cast before the ballots were burned and created the white billows from the roof.
The next step is the moment Cardinal Tauran comes out on the balcony and befuddles us all in latin and provides the name of the world's next pope.
Will it be Scola, the "safe" Italian cardinal, American O'Malley, or will the world have broken the mold and elected Onaiyekan of Africa?
The square is screaming but simultaneously holding its breath.
"As what will you be known?"
These are the questions asked to the man in the Sistine Chapel today after winning a 2/3 vote as the man chosen by God to be successor to St Peter's.
This is what happens right before I heard Steve Washington of Inside Edition on New York's upper West Side.
The bells of St. Peter's Square can be heard around the world as this clear skied day in NYC replicates the white smoke of the Vatican. After receiving the papal robes from the Room of Tears, he will emerge to Rome, to the Catholic Church and to the world as our mortal father with "full supreme and universal authority."
Speculation is that the man who will emerge onto the square will be one which was projected, considering the decision came after only two days in conclave.Only five ballots were cast before the ballots were burned and created the white billows from the roof.
The next step is the moment Cardinal Tauran comes out on the balcony and befuddles us all in latin and provides the name of the world's next pope.
Will it be Scola, the "safe" Italian cardinal, American O'Malley, or will the world have broken the mold and elected Onaiyekan of Africa?
The square is screaming but simultaneously holding its breath.
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