New Pope chosen

New Pope chosen

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CNN's got an article on it...

VATICAN CITY (CNN) -- White smoke rose from a Sistine Chapel chimney and bells rang Tuesday, signaling the selection of a new pope.

Thousands of people in St. Peter's Square clapped and waved flags as the smoke billowed over Vatican City.

Suspense built as the throng waited for the symbolic ringing of bells, at which point the crowd broke into a roar of jubilation.

The 115 cardinals' morning ballots were burned at about 11:50 a.m. (5:50 a.m. EDT).

After each pair of votes, the ballots were burned in a stove at the Sistine Chapel, with the white smoke in the evening announcing to observers outside that a pope has been elected.

Black smoke had come from the chimney after the two morning votes.

more here: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/19/pope.tuesday/index.html

iam very intrested in this

waitwait...apparently CNN(the channel, not the website) just said it was black smoke...


i'm going to wait till tonight before i say anything more...hopefully they'll decide the color of the smoke by 7...

lol... it's kinda funny... everyone staring at a chimney waiting for a certain colour smoke!!

well, they're following Church tradition. it seems funny now, but that was the only way the common people would know back before they were actually able to mingle with "upper class" people. when there was a severe class separation, common folk wouldn't know unless they had something visible like that. it's not like they could read something pasted to a wall...most of them couldn't read to begin with.

you know, I feel kinda bad that im not really following this. Im a bad catholic.

and i stopped following the Catholic religion, but i'm on top of this like a moddafugga

Nabcmus Papam!!

*****EDIT****Habemus Papam!!
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger elected
changed name to Benedict the 16th (chosen because it Benedict means blessed one...the blessings god has given us)
(On a personal level, i dont think it was wise to choose a man who is already 78 years old.....and....pope john paul II was much more of a person that id be more inclined to take a picture with over than this guy but its all good)


yup, i just came home, turned on the tube n wham!....so many ppl in st. peters bisilica.....they pictured some of the people pouring in and they were all like running and jumping over stuff and i couldnt stop laughing....but i dunno, if i was there id probably go crazy too....

Just waitin to see the guy pop out on the balcony and say the words accepto!

yeah i pretty much only go to church on 1 or 2 major holidays. Im indifferent as far as religion goes. Not really sure what I think of religion in general.

a german thats amazing

well yea after hearing the news but two none italian popes in a row now

who would've though.....

iam not so sure they made the right choice i thought they should have went younger

NO, it's good they went with an older guy...they didn't want him to be in office as long as the previous Pope.

Most of the time the Vatican chooses older people more than younger people.... or so I've heard.

yea they do have all that age preference and all that. John Paul II's term was long but I guess nobody really expected that you know.... the guy was pretty kew though. I know I wouldn't have the nerve to forgive someone that shot me twice and bringing me closer to and end.... the guy did some pretty amazing things on his 20 somethin years on top.

Did anyone else notice this.....the reporter person pointed it out.....it was sprinkling and cloudy outside before the Pope showed himself.....when the Pope stepped out onto the balcony, the sprinkling stopped shortly before that....and while he was being introduced, the clouds began to clear and the sun came out......and the reporter said that it started to get warmer as well....hmm...what do you guys think of this....divine intervention of the weather???

Not meant to alarm anyone, just take it for what it is...

http://www.catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp

http://www.crystalinks.com/papalprophecies.html

Pope Benedictus XVI is not from the Benedictine Order (which is symbolized by the Olive, but he chose his name as such)

lol no. i said take it as it is, something someone wrote that's it. i just think it's interesting to read

Did you mean Left Behind? I think I've heard of it but not familiar with it 8/

i go to St. Benedict high school right now here in chicago... and our school was overflowed with news people interviewing students and theology teachers... there were like 6 news trucks outside the school...

For some really weird reason, Tulsa gets the WGN Chicago news....i guess since we have one of their channels, they want to show their news to us....its strange sometimes cuz it will be all hot and stuffy here and they show pictures of chicago and there's blizzard-like conditions....anyways, ill probably have to try n catch that sometime then....

haha, Far Behind! thats funny!