The New Pope Has Been Named…

On Tuesday afternoon, 115 Catholic cardinals gathered at the Sistine Chapel in Rome to vote for the successor to the recently-resigned Pope Benedict XVI.

After each cardinal took a vow of secrecy before placing their vote written on a rectangular piece of paper, the tally was accumulated and the outcome was announced. The ballots were bound together and burned with a special chemical, releasing a white smoke from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, signaling to the world that a new pope has been selected.

So who did they select?

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, age 76, formerly Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He has taken on the regnal name Pope Francis I.

Watch his speech below, via CNN:

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