The Single Best post About the New Pope

Lorraine has an excellent post about the historic election today:

I was born in 1987. I rarely have experienced any sort of history that I remember. This one, I have to take time out of my religion class to write down the entire experience.

A New Awakening for the Catholic Church

We heard the announcement at about 12:10 EST. "Turn on the televisions in your classroom to Channel 25, CNN," said our principal.

Instantly I started to worry. What was it? A terrorist attack? One of us on television? Another 9/11?

The minute we pressed the "ON" button and we saw the crowds, I knew. I didn't even have to read the words across the bottom of the screen: "New Pope Elected."

Immediately an electric current ran through the Physics class. This was a lot more important than we had expected it to be. Some of us were purely excited for the break from Physics, but the fact that we were all sitting there breathless had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Read the whole thing.