HABEMUS PAPAM!
This has certainly been an exciting – and, indeed, historic – time for the Universal Church as 132 cardinals from 70 countries around the world recently met in the Sistine Chapel to elect our next pope. And, after just four ballots, so many of us watched excitedly as white smoke billowed from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel just after noon on 8 May. I don’t know about you, but I certainly did not expect an American to be elected – the first pope from the United States of America […]