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Argentinian Cardinal Chosen As New Pope

by KREX News Room

Story Created: Mar 13, 2013 at 12:43 PM MDT

Story Updated: Mar 13, 2013 at 2:33 PM MDT

VATICAN CITY - The Catholic Church has chosen a new pope.

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, signaling that 115 cardinals in a papal conclave had elected a new leader for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.

Pope Francis I, previously known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, addressed a massive crowd from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica.

He succeeds Pope Benedict XVI who resigned last month, throwing the church into turmoil and exposing deep divisions among cardinals who were tasked with finding a manager to clean up a corrupt Vatican bureaucracy as well as a pastor who could revive Catholicism in a time of growing secularism.

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Bye said on Thursday, Mar 14 at 6:17 AM

Yawn...

BN said on Wednesday, Mar 13 at 7:57 PM

Patriot...Nope the pope aint a raghead.

Patriot said on Wednesday, Mar 13 at 4:01 PM

I thought Obama was taking this job.

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