Habemus papem!
Pope Francis Well it would be almost sinful to close this day without making some kind of a blog entry! What an eventful day for our Church. After 13 days of sede vacant, we have our new Pope. Being recently baptised the class ‘vaticanista’, I have been keeping a very close eye on papal events since Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI make the historic decisions to step down from his ministry as Pope beginning on the 28th of February. There has been an element of Irishness attached to this conclave as I found myself by default having to repeatedly explain St. Malachy’s Prophecies and the concept of Paddy power betting, both which had been cropping up all over the place especially in North American media. I’m guessing like most of the world, I too, had my opinion, as to what I would like to see in the next Pope but was very happy to leave that up to the Holy Spirit. My main hope was for a man that would continue the trend of holy Popes who were aware that they were merely an instrument of ...