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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

NEW POPE : Catholic Church has new pope as white smoke rises

Papal conclave: Catholic Church has new pope as white smoke rises

The Catholic Church has chosen a new pope. White smoke is billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning 115 cardinals in a papal conclave have elected a new leader.
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White smoke is seen from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday indicating that the College of Cardinals has elected a new Pope.

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White smoke is seen from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday indicating that the College of Cardinals has elected a new Pope.

By: NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press, Published on Wed Mar 13 2013

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VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church has chosen a new pope.
White smoke is billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning 115 cardinals in a papal conclave have elected a new leader for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
The new pope is expected to appear on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica within an hour, after a church official announces "Habemus Papum" — "We have a pope" — and gives the name of the new pontiff in Latin.
The conclave was called after Pope Benedict XVI resigned last month, throwing the church into turmoil and exposing deep divisions among cardinals tasked with finding a manager to clean up a corrupt Vatican bureaucracy as well as a pastor who can revive Catholicism in a time of growing secularism.


From: elizabethannelliott@hotmail.co.uk
To: jc3schmi@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: CONCLAVE ;) : Dennis Rodman arrives in St Peter's Square
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:22:52 +0000

What overweening arrogance and hubris,
 
This overpaid sports star thinks that his very presence in the square is going to influence the Cardinals to elect the pope he wants, he also thinks that he will get to meet the new pope, (he'd be last in a very long line.)
 
I think he'd better learn some humility. Is he even a Catholic?
 
Love
 
Eliz
 
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 1:48 PM
Subject: CONCLAVE ;) : Dennis Rodman arrives in St Peter's Square
 
Dennis Rodman arrives in St Peter's Square on 13 March 2013.
Dennis Rodman arrives in St Peter's Square today.
Photograph: Chris Helgren/Reuters
US basketball player Dennis Rodman, fresh from his diplomatic triumph in North Korea (where he managed to upset Psy, see below, but never mind), has now arrived in St Peter's Square, apparently to promote the chances of Ghana's Peter Turkson and, either way, meet the new pope. "I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed," he said.
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