White smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel through the conclave to elect a brand new pope, on the Vatican, Thursday.
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VATICAN CITY — White smoke streamed from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, signaling to the world that the 133 Roman Catholic cardinals inside have elected a brand new pope.
The id of the brand new pontiff is just not but identified. Vatican officers are anticipated to announce his identify in Latin from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica shortly.
Cardinal Dominique Mamberti, a 73-year-old Frenchman born in Morocco, is predicted to make the announcement — until he himself is elected pope.
Then the brand new pope himself will seem and handle the group.
Rome is brimming with pleasure, as 1000’s collect close to the By way of della Conciliazione to be current for the historic second when the brand new pope is introduced and introduced to the world.
Whereas the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics await the emergence of the brand new chief of their church on the well-known loggia, a sequence of rituals are going down.
As soon as a profitable vote is full, essentially the most senior cardinal asks the newly elected pope, “Do you settle for your canonical election as supreme pontiff?”
After he accepts, he’s then requested, “What identify do you want to be known as?”
The cardinal electors then pay homage and pledge obedience to the brand new head of the church, and thanks are given to God whereas the brand new pope is taken right into a vestry and fitted with papal apparel.
Lastly, the pronouncement is made in Latin — “Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Papam!” (“I deliver you tidings of nice pleasure: Now we have a pope!”) — and the brand new pope provides an apostolic blessing to throngs of trustworthy.
The brand new pontiff was chosen by 133 cardinal electors by a two-thirds majority.
