JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Friday, July 4, 2025

A new pope has been chosen

by

Newsdesk
56 days ago
20250508

White smoke is pour­ing out of the Sis­tine Chapel chim­ney, sig­nalling that a pope has been elect­ed to lead the Catholic Church.

That means the win­ner se­cured at least 89 votes of the 133 car­di­nals par­tic­i­pat­ing in the con­clave to elect a suc­ces­sor to Pope Fran­cis. The crowd in St. Pe­ter’s Square erupt­ed in cheers. The name will be an­nounced lat­er, when a top car­di­nal ut­ters the words “Habe­mus pa­pam!” Latin for “We have a pope!” from the log­gia of St. Pe­ter’s Basil­i­ca. The car­di­nal then reads the win­ner’s birth name in Latin, and re­veals the name he has cho­sen to be called.

The new pope is then ex­pect­ed to make his first pub­lic ap­pear­ance and im­part a bless­ing from the same log­gia.

Instagram


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored