- 7.05pm Wednesday 13th 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q04URbhvYdo
French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran announced the newly elected Pope as Pope Francis on the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica.
- Ordained Cardinal: 21 February 2001 by Bl.
- John Paul II.
- Had a tough life under the military Junta of Argentina.
- Was very close to being elected as Pope in 2005.
- A sign of united Christians around the world.
O God, who in your providential design
willed that your Church be built
upon blessed Peter, whom you set over the other Apostles,
look with favour, we pray, on Francis our Pope
and grant that he, whom you have made Peter’s successor,
may be for your people a visible so...