white smoke from Vatican

[gormworm]

.. and the six o'clock bells toll at six o'clock as crowds cheer.

[gormworm]

Is it just me, ... or did the decision take much less time than the past decisions have?

[Gummer]

Must be a good Roy Tan...

[Aquarius]

German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Named New Pope

[Aquarius]

Bells, White Smoke Signal Newly-Elected Pope

POSTED: 5:56 am EDT April 19, 2005
UPDATED: 12:47 pm EDT April 19, 2005

There's a new leader of the 1.1 billion member Catholic church.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany is the new pope. He will be Pope Benedict XVI.

Joseph Ratzinger


Chiming bells and white smoke from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel confirmed Tuesday that cardinals have picked a successor to John Paul II.


At first, it wasn't clear if the the smoke coming from the chimney was white, signaling a new pope, or black for an inconclusive vote. But the joyous ringing of church bells sent pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square into a frenzy of cheers. They chanted "Viva il Papa!" or "Long live the pope!"

"It's only been 24 hours, surprising how fast he was elected," Vatican Radio said, commenting on how the new pope was elected after just four or five ballots.

Cardinals reached the decision in the first full day of the first conclave of the new millennium. Votes Monday and Tuesday morning failed to reach a consensus. The new pope is the church's 265th.

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Vatican bells ring to signal that a new pope has been chosen.



Thousands of people have gathered at St. Peter's Square to see the pope publicly identified. The bells were still pealing 10 minutes after the original tolling.

The cardinals were to hold two ballots in the morning and two in the afternoon of each day of voting. After the sessions, the ballots and any notes are burned.

A winner needed the votes of two-thirds, or 77, of the 115 voting cardinals.

[Random]

We will be doing this again in 3 or 4 years the man is 78!........

[Random]

And supposedly The NEXT Pope will be the last if Prophecy hold true by some of the people mentioned on C2C

[joequinn]

This election was fixed even before Pope John Paul II died, and there are those who say that Ratzinger acted as the de facto Pope during the last five years or so of Pope John Paul II's pontificate. Ratzinger is an unbelievably reactionary cardinal, and Pope Benedict XVI is going to experience immediate, wide-spread and violent reactions against his authority. As Reagan led to Dubya, so John Paul II leads to Benedict XVI --- and with the same consequences...

[gormworm]

As Reagan led to Dubya, so John Paul II leads to Benedict XVI --- and with the same consequences...

If this is true ... the Vatican interns need to watch their butts.

[gormworm]

I was impressed with the acceptance speech.
I'm happy to allow history to reveal the character of this new Pope through his actions in due time.

[Captain Beyond]

Well,they can't wait too long,gotta give the sheeple a new leader to worship,and keep the money machine rolling on,and tell all the sheeple what to think,less they begin to think for themselves!

RiCk

[Skookum]

In the 13th century, after a series of trying papal vacancies during which next to no church business could be conducted, it became clear that a reform was in order. In 1271, as a stalemate in the election process was nearing its fourth year, the flock took things into its own hands. The local officials in Viterbo—where, due to chronic instability in nearby Rome, the papal residence was then located—hastened the process. By order of the mayor, the doors to the Episcopal Palace, where the Sacred College of Cardinals was in session, were locked and boarded up. Guards were posted to prevent escape or entry. The town's secular officials then began to exert temporal pressure. The 15 feuding cardinals inside were told that if after three days they had not arrived at a decision, their meals would be restricted. If five further days elapsed without an election, only bread, wine, and water would be supplied. This nutritive window was to be further narrowed if a decision was not yet made. Even for the elect, fasting has its limits, but the proactive officials of Viterbo did not cease here. They clambered to the roof of the palace and tore off the majority of the tiles of the chapel in which the cardinals were deliberating. Exposed thus to indignity and the elements, the deadlock between the French and Italian contingents was finally broken and a new pope was elected.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/051...y,62901,6.html

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[Aquarius]

This election was fixed even before Pope John Paul II died, and there are those who say that Ratzinger acted as the de facto Pope during the last five years or so of Pope John Paul II's pontificate. Ratzinger is an unbelievably reactionary cardinal, and Pope Benedict XVI is going to experience immediate, wide-spread and violent reactions against his authority. As Reagan led to Dubya, so John Paul II leads to Benedict XVI --- and with the same consequences...

I agree Joe, after all Ratzinger was the person closest to the Pope.