A new pope has been elected after white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel

[Augusta]

A new pope has been elected after white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in Rome this evening.

The 133 Cardinal electors gathered in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel have elected the new Pope.

He will appear soon at the central window of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Cardinal Dominique Mamberti, a 73-year-old Frenchman born in Morocco, is expected to make the announcement, unless he himself is elected pope.
The 133 cardinals, who voted for the successor to late Pope Francis were shut in for the secretive conclave on Wednesday evening.

 

[King Belieal]

The new pope is American. How I wish we had a Filipino pope or an African pope. But it is all fine. Let's see the direction the new pope would lead the church.

 

[eLdavis]

I was also hoping it would be an african pope or maybe a Filipino one, let's see how they would perform.

 

[Augusta]

Yeah I wonder when we would be lucky to have an African Pope at least for a change

 

[Kross]

Yeah I wonder when we would be lucky to have an African Pope at least for a change

It would be difficult for us to have an African Pope because we don't have too many ranking Cardinals. The last ranking cardinal was Cardinal Arinze.