White smoke billowed out of the world’s most famous chimney Thursday as the college of cardinals elected a new pope.
The new pope will soon emerge to have his name and new papal name announced. The historic occasion holds the eyes of the world.
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While progressives favored the late Pope Francis’s protégés, like Pietro Parolin of Italy (Francis’s right hand at the Vatican) and Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines, conservatives hoped for a more traditional pope, like Robert Sarah of Guinea.
While many tried to claim that Francis was a reformer and an empathetic pastor, the reality is that he prioritized leftist politics over biblical theology and doctrine, fractured the Church, scandalized
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