What wonderful words heard by the world from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday, March 13. In only five ballots, the 115 cardinal electors were able to exceed (reportedly over 90 votes) the 77 votes needed for the election of a new pope.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the 76 year old archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is the 266th successor of St. Peter the Apostle. His election brings many firsts to the papacy: first pope from the Southern Hemisphere, first member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), first Argentine, first from the Americas, first religious order priest in over a thousand years, first non-European in over 1,200 years, first to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi for his papal name.
Wow!
I believe that not only the Roman Catholic Church will be blessed by the ministry of Pope Francis, but also the Christian church, and the entire world.
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