Habemus Papam!
and welcome back to a fairly exciting day for Catholics, news junkies and chimney sweeps.
I, like hundreds of millions of Catholics and billions of other awesome people, had never heard of Jorge Mario Bergoglio; he didn’t appear to be one of the elite front runners the Vatican pundits had put forth. I remember calling it in 2005, telling my English professor that I “Hoped it would be Ratzinger”. Thought I was pretty smart stuff, so this time I told everyone that I “Hoped it would be Burke” just to see if luck would bring us a pontiff from the Sconnie Nation, no such luck… …