FREEDOM EDEN: Conclave

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Friday, May 9, 2025

First American Pope

Eagle Firing AR-15 Emerges From Vatican Indicating An American Pope Has Been Selected https://t.co/wKmkFW1lYE pic.twitter.com/XSAgbcdHJp
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 8, 2025

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Habemus Papam - Pope Leo XIV

🚨BREAKING🚨 The new pope is Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, his papal name is Pope Leo XIV

He is the first American pope. pic.twitter.com/i6l3Cb71h0
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 8, 2025

Habemus Papam!

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, taking the name Leo XIV, is the new pope of the Holy Catholic Church pic.twitter.com/nzHO8gwoKC
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) May 8, 2025

🚨 #BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope in HISTORY, has been introduced to the world.

THIS IS INCREDIBLE! 🇺🇸

The cheers from the crowd are DEAFENING! pic.twitter.com/N3jIkmzIWu
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 8, 2025

Historic.
I pray for Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV.
I pray for the faithful, in dire need of a shepherd.

Our Holy Father, Leo XIV pic.twitter.com/BrXtLEtCyq
— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) May 8, 2025

WHITE SMOKE

BREAKING: Habemus Papam!
White smoke has risen from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling the College of Cardinals has chosen a new pope. Of the 133 cardinals sequestered in the Vatican since May 7, one has now been elected as the 267th leader of the Roman Catholic Church.… pic.twitter.com/03GWxLOZLy
— EWTN News (@EWTNews) May 8, 2025

White Smoke. Habemus Papam. We have a Pope pic.twitter.com/glXeqKf3cQ
— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) May 8, 2025

🚨 #BREAKING: White smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel

A new pope has been chosen! pic.twitter.com/JsbxlSrnd7
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 8, 2025

BREAKING: White smoke is beginning to emerge from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel.

This means a new pontiff has been elected on the second day of the conclave

Live updates ➡️ https://t.co/hVzePzyMqJ

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/OaLyMtGnZ4
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 8, 2025

Day 2 of Conclave - Black Smoke

Black smoke billows from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel, meaning the 133 Cardinal electors have not yet chosen a new Pope. pic.twitter.com/2LGey5Q0qD
— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) May 8, 2025

Black smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at 11:51 am Rome time on Thursday, signaling that the cardinals voting at the conclave have not yet elected a new pope. pic.twitter.com/gdkGKfsgJy
— EWTN Vatican (@EWTNVatican) May 8, 2025

Time for lunch!

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

CBS: Cardinals Are 'Rawdogging'

NEW: CBS News says the 133 red-robed cardinals in the Sistine Chapel are "rawdogging" the papal conclave.

What a time to be alive.

"One thing we know they're not doing is checking Instagram because their devices have all been confiscated."

"I believe the kids call it… pic.twitter.com/u5FGBm6uRr
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 7, 2025

Oh, good grief.

Black Smoke - No New Pope

Black smoke emerged from the chimney over the Sistine Chapel at 21:00 on Wednesday evening, signalling that a first ballot has been held at the conclave and has concluded without the election of a Pope.https://t.co/hlmAJdskTO pic.twitter.com/AKxuUbDK2g
— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) May 7, 2025

Not surprising.

Cardinal Dolan Enters the Conclave

This is the day we enter the conclave and I’m about to go into the Domus Sanctae Marthae, named after St. Martha, who took care of hospitality for Jesus. We leave here and go over to the Sistine Chapel every day for prayers and voting, but this is where we reside. I won’t be able… pic.twitter.com/uO0zGdrwbo
— Cardinal Dolan (@CardinalDolan) May 7, 2025

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Let the Conclave Begin

Conclave ready.

Several North American Cardinals who have been staying at the Pontifical North American College during this interregnum period, departed this afternoon with the cheers and prayers of the seminarians and staff of the College sending them off. pic.twitter.com/PD8B8gcn8L
— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) May 6, 2025

The Fisherman's Ring of Pope Francis was destroyed today before the conclave can officially begin pic.twitter.com/KowZPZZS1V
— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) May 6, 2025

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Cardinal Dolan at Vatican City

I’m about to enter the Paul VI Audience Hall, right next to St. Peter’s Basilica. This is where we Cardinals are meeting in these days until we go into conclave. Thanks for staying in touch during these very important days in the life of Holy Mother Church. @thegnewsroom pic.twitter.com/4lT6CcyYgI
— Cardinal Dolan (@CardinalDolan) April 24, 2025

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Cardinal Dolan and the Next Pope

Conclave News 🚨

When asked what he will be looking for in the next Pope, Cardinal Dolan said:

"The warm heart of Francis.... with ummm what would I say, more clarity in teaching, more refinement of the Church's tradition, more digging in the treasures of the past" pic.twitter.com/y5cv6dUS6L
— Al Carbo (@carbo_al) April 23, 2025

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Papal Conclave

Soon, we will have a new pope.

From CNN:

The work to elect a successor to retired Pope Benedict XVI begins in earnest Tuesday, when the cardinals charged with the task gather in Vatican City for the papal conclave.

Just a few hours after moving into Santa Marta, their residence at the Vatican for the duration of the process, the cardinals will start the day with a morning Mass at St. Peter's Basilica.

The service -- open to the public -- will be the last public event featuring the 115 cardinals who will choose the new spiritual leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.

Cardinals taking part in the process will then walk to the Sistine Chapel, chanting prayers as they go, to begin the secret election called the conclave.

After that, the only clue the world will have of what is happening inside will be periodic puffs of smoke from a copper chimney installed over the weekend in the Sistine Chapel.

Black smoke, no pope. White smoke, success.

Cardinal Dolan invites us to join him in a novena to Saint Joseph.

In my blog post this past Wednesday, I invited you to join me in a novena of prayer to Saint Joseph, asking him and his virgin-wife to look after the whole Church and get us an inspired successor to Saint Peter. I thought I should probably provide you with the wording of the novena prayer to Saint Joseph, and I renew my invitation to you to offer it beginning March 11, and concluding on the Feast of Saint Joseph, March 19. (Where the prayer indicates that you should mention your request, please feel free to phrase it in your own words!)

Novena prayer to Saint Joseph

Saint Joseph, you are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. I have special confidence in you. You are powerful with God and will never abandon your faithful servants. I humbly invoke you and commend myself, with all who are dear to me, to your intercession. By the love you have for Jesus and Mary, do not abandon me during life, and assist me at the hour of my death.

Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the immaculate Virgin, Foster-father of Jesus Christ, obtain for me a pure, humble, and charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the Divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary.

Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore: (Mention your request). Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I am confident that your prayers on my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God.

Monday, April 18, 2005

By WILLIAM J. KOLE

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel's chimney Monday evening, signaling that the cardinals sequestered inside for the first papal conclave of the new millennium failed to elect a new pope.

The black smoke emanating shortly after 8 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT) meant the 115 voting cardinal "princes" of the church would retire for the night and return to the chapel Tuesday morning for more balloting in their search for a successor to Pope John Paul II.

If two morning ballots fail to produce a pope, the cardinals could hold two more votes Tuesday afternoon.

Some 40,000 people who packed St. Peter's Square to stare at the stovepipe jutting from the chapel roof shouted, "It's black! It's black!" and snapped photos with their cell phones.

White smoke will tell the world that the church's 265th pontiff has been chosen to succeed John Paul, who died April 2 at age 84.

The cardinals, from six continents and representing 52 countries, began their secret deliberations late in the afternoon after the ceremonial closing of the massive doors of the chapel, which is decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and wired with electronic jamming devices to thwart eavesdropping.

The excitement built as darkness set in and pilgrims watched close-ups of the chimney on giant video screens in the square.

As the smoke began pouring from the chimney, shouts of "e bianco! e bianco!" - "It's white! It's white!" - rippled through the crowd. But the cries quickly gave way to sighs of disappointment as the smoke blackened.

There was initial confusion when a Vatican Radio commentator said, "It seems white," as the first puffs emerged from the chimney. But as thick, darker smoke followed, the station proclaimed it black.

"It looks like the stove wasn't working well at first," an announcer joked a few minutes later.
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Some procedural information and history:

Cardinals are sworn to keep the conclave procedures secret under pain of excommunication, which is a surprisingly recent punishment, dating back only a little over 100 years ago. These days electronic sweeps are made of the conclave areas to make sure there are no listening devices. Cardinals are even cut off from e-mail. No laptops or handheld computers are allowed, and mobile phones are banned.

Locking the cardinals up to deliberate and vote was designed some 800 years ago to keep secular outsiders - such as kings and emperors - from trying to influence the vote, and also to get the cardinals to reach a choice quickly. But that didn't work all the time. In 1271, an angry mob tore off the roof of the palace and reduced the cardinals to a diet of bread and water after a three-year-long conclave failed to produce a pope.

New rules promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1996 allow election by a simple majority in extreme circumstances of a lengthy deadlock of perhaps two weeks.

But few Vatican observers expect a modern conclave to last that long.

No modern conclave has taken longer than five days.

It took eight ballots and three days in 1978 to elect Cardinal Karol Wojtyla the successor to Pope John Paul I.

I'm not expecting a three-year-long conclave or an angry mob to tear off a roof.

Bookmakers lay odds:
VATICAN CITY (CNN) -- With the College of Cardinals preparing to enter the conclave and cast the first votes for the new pontiff, bookmakers around the world are laying odds on who will emerge the 265th pope.

Betting firms and local media are backing Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, who gave John Paul's funeral oration, but history advises punters to beware of favored candidates.

A day before cardinals begin their conclave to pick the next pontiff, Ratzinger remained comfortably ahead on three online betting boards, with Intertops giving him the shortest odds at 2-1.

Ratzinger was a 3-1 favorite for Dublin, Ireland-based Paddy Power and 7/2 at Britain's William Hill. The odds on the German had narrowed from 4-1 on Friday and 11-2 on Thursday.

French cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger was second for both Paddy Power and William Hill. Among the top four on all three lists were 78-year-old Italian Carlo Maria Martini and his successor as the archbishop of Milan, Dionigi Tettamanzi.

Rounding out the leading six were Nigeria's Francis Arinze and Claudio Hummes of Brazil. For those favoring long odds, Paddy Power was offering 125-1 odds on nine different cardinals.
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Are people actually placing bets on the next pope?

That's just weird.

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"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant."

--AL GORE

"Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers."

--ROSIE O'DONNELL

"Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?"

--CHRIS ROCK

"Shut the f--- up! Shut up if you can't take a joke [about President Bush]!"

--BARBRA STREISAND

"Right, oh, yeah, Happy 9/11! Celebrate the day, right?"

--JAMES BROLIN, Mr. Barbra Streisand

"I think President Bush very well may have signed an authorization for the 9/11 attacks."

--KEVIN BARRETT, UW-MADISON Lecturer

"I said what I said. I am not guilty."

--SADDAM HUSSEIN

"Terri will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away."

--MICHAEL SCHIAVO

"On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths -- half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. "

--BILL MOYERS

"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for."

--HOWARD DEAN

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."

--MICHAEL MOORE

"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs."

--JOHN KERRY

"F---ing retarded."

"[Republicans] can go f--- themselves!"

--RAHM EMANUEL

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."

--HILLARY CLINTON

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."

--BILL CLINTON

"And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."

--MICHELLE OBAMA

"If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor, makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor."

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"If you love me, you got to help me pass this bill."

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"[F]or most of my lifetime, the United States was such a dominant economic power, we were such a large market, our industry, our technology, our manufacturing was so significant that we always met the rest of the world economically on our terms. And now, because of the incredible rise of India and China and Brazil and other countries, the United States remains the largest economic and the largest market but there’s real competition out there. And that's potentially healthy. It makes -- Michelle was saying earlier I like tough questions because it keeps me on my toes. Well, this will keep America on its toes."

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"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna PUNISH OUR ENEMIES and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2."

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"We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but THEY GOTTA SIT IN BACK."

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"We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever... we absorbed it and we are stronger."

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"We're buying shrimp, guys."

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"We are the ones we've been waiting for."

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"We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose ass to kick."

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"We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or you're providing good service. We don't want people to stop fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow the economy."

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"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

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"It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure."

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"But I -- I think that the most important thing for the public to understand is, we're not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11."

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"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy CORPSE-MAN Christian [sic] Brossard. And lying on a gurney aboard the USNS Comfort, a woman asked Christopher: 'Where do you come from? What country? After my operation,' she said, 'I will pray for that country.' And in Creole, CORPSE-MAN Brossard responded, 'Etazini.' The United States of America."

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"I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout-out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you."

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"We are God's partners in matters of life and death."

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"[T]he Cambridge police acted stupidly."

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"I am going to teach [my daughters] first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

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"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings, and INEFFICIENCIES to our health care system."

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"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

--BARACK OBAMA

NOTEWORTHY QUOTATIONS

"In a word, freedom is ever new. It is a challenge held out to each generation, and it must constantly be won over for the cause of good.... [A] democracy without values can lose its very soul."

--POPE BENEDICT XVI

"When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society."

--POPE JOHN PAUL II

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

--MOTHER TERESA

"To promote choice for its own sake is more akin to self-indulgence than self-determination. It is the philosophy of a pre-schooler in a candy shop."

--BRIAN POLLARD, M.D.

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

--MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

"The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."

--RONALD REAGAN

"Liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid."

--MARK LEVIN

"We are Warriors forever."

--BO ELLIS

"I know how much you're supposed to enjoy every sandwich, you know."

--WARREN ZEVON

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