Do you have a friend in your life whom you haven’t known your whole life, but it feels like you have? Maybe you can’t remember a time without them, or you can’t quite remember how and when you met, but they somehow seamlessly integrated into the life you were living before they were a part of it…
Habemus Papam!
A little before 7:15pm, the doors opened on the loggia of St. Peter’s, and Cardinal Dominique Mamberti walked out, along with two men in cassocks and surplices who held the microphone and the script. People in the crowd started to hush each other, and Cardinal Mamberti spoke: “Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum…" (“I announce to you a great joy…”) And then he paused as the crowds cheered, either because we were cheering or for dramatic effect or both. “…Habemus Papam!” (“We have a pope!”)…