On Thursday, massive crowds St. Peter's Square erupted into cheers after white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating that the Conclave had selected a new Pope.
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00:00Here we are, and then a spectacular, sunny, brilliant evening here, and you can even see from the perspective of the crowds there in St. Peter's Square, the white smoke billowing from the chimney, even as the sun starts going down behind the dome of St. Peter's there.
00:19This smoke will last at least about six minutes, six and a half minutes, and with the light breeze there in the square, we can see it billowing down towards the square, and we've got now basically about, oh, it's going to be 45 minutes to at least an hour at least before the new pope just elected appears to greet everyone, and so there's huge anticipation, naturally, of who will
00:49the new successor of St. Peter V.
00:54Well, and I mean, as we were talking about before, you see the crowds filling the squares, but also the different people who have come, I mean, you can see the flags waving, people smiling, it's a big sign of, you know, the universality of the church, but also just how supportive people are in the sense of being here for this moment.
01:11And now we're going to have an invasion of Romans, they're going to be coming in, no, it's only natural, normal, and we live here, so those who can, they'll be.
01:23And he's their bishop, too.
01:24What's that?
01:25He's their bishop, too.
01:26Of course, he's their bishop.
01:27There we go.
01:28And so they're going to be streaming into the square now, it's going to be filling up.
01:31It will make for some interesting traffic from my house, because if my recollection is correct, when they couldn't get any further, they just left their cars in the road.
01:41So there you are.
01:43They were, they were just, they were just stopping in the road.
01:47They were just, there's no way else to die.
01:48That's true.
01:49That's true.
01:50Look at that billowing thick white smoke there.
01:54All the different flags.
01:55I love the people ready with their flags just in case.
01:58Yes.
01:58Yes.
01:59My daughter said that the election of Benedict Cousins, her closest friend, they went to school right now, before we're here, and her closest friend was German.
02:09And they went running out with the square, and out passed Joseph Ashley, and she said her friend had this teeny tiny girl in her teenage boy course.
02:18She pulled out of the square, and she said, wow.
02:21It was enormous time, and it was suddenly raining.
02:24Oh, my goodness.
02:25Apparently, a lot of people come prepared.
02:26Yeah, because you just never know.
02:28I mean, when I was in the square earlier, people thought, oh, no, it might be a longer time.
02:32It could take, you know, days.
02:34You just don't know.
02:35You just don't know.
02:36You just don't know.
02:36In fact, I didn't know what to expect.
02:39At the same time, it's a wonderful surprise here to see the white smoke billowing there.
02:45And so, after just, oh, day and a half, basically, and here we are.
02:52It does make you feel like there's a wonderful sense of the noise stopped, the cameras went off, they went into the chapel, they prayed, and the Holy Spirit spoke.
03:01I mean, it just really gives us a great sense of confidence.
03:04And, indeed, this hope that's being realized that we have a new shepherd, so to speak, and someone to take on the reins there and to accompany us on this journey, our life journey.
03:20And it will be fascinating to see.
03:21As I say, you see the central lodge of St. Peter's Basilica.
03:24And I really see that's where the new pope will be appearing, as he traditionally does, to be announced, that we have a pope.
03:36And then the big surprise will be as he proceeds towards the central lodge, and we see who that cardinal is, now dressed in white.
03:49Well, and for many people, they might be thinking, okay, why is there this long wait, as you mentioned,
03:54Thaddeus, why is there this long wait in between when we see the white smoke, and when the new pope comes out into the loggia?
04:01And it's because there's a process that's going on right now.
04:03There is a very long process, which will be the oath of allegiance of the cardinals, of which there are 132 now.
04:14And we saw how long it took for the oath to be, for the oath of the conclave.
04:20And I'm imagining it will take about that, like, for the oath of the allegiance.
04:27Well, and also, Liz, you had mentioned before, way before in our discussion, the Room of Tears, which has become very central right now.
04:36So, right now, the new pope would have gone, or is it after?
04:42I would think that the ballots were burned after.
04:45I think he's already, and I think that's one of the reasons why this is kind of a funny hour.
04:50As it got to be past five, I was thinking, well, I guess now we have to wait until seven.
04:57But I think this must have been the time that he spent in that Room of Tears thinking about preparing himself for what is, look at that square.
05:07And that square is just, it's a microcosm of the millions, if not billions, who are watching, all of them fixed to see, some of them already Christians, Catholics, but other people who are really searching.
05:22And there is so much searching going on in the world.
05:25I don't know how many of the people that I've been working with in the secular media, who talk, well, I used to be Catholic, or I went to Catholic school, or I was an older boy, or I was this.
05:35But they somehow feel this moment as still their own.
05:40It's the funny thing about those sacraments, right, Father?
05:42It's like, ah, hard to get rid of those.
05:44And so, he's also the father to those people, and to all the others who don't even know that they're orphaned yet.
05:53All the people we pray for under fire.
05:55Exactly.
05:56And there's also a real, real life need going on in the volunteers as well, because probably the tailors are very...