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Hello, it's just before tea time on Thursday afternoon, the 8th of May.
The scene in St Peter's Square in the Vatican is quite amazing.
Beautiful late afternoon sunshine.
A crowd of thousands of jubilant people from all around the world.
There's a marching band.
There's the Swiss guards who guard the Vatican and have done for centuries.
And crucially, there was white smoke.
drifting across it from that chimney just outside the Sistine Chapel,
which means the cardinals who've been sequestered in their conclave for two days have selected a new pope.
And we're watching the quite highly produced TV broadcast from St. Peter's Square with a camera on the balcony
as we're waiting to see who that group of men,
all under 80, have chosen as the next leader of the world's more than a billion Catholics.
It is really quite an electric moment.
And here he comes.
And it is Robert Francis Prevost.
The first American ever in history to be Pope.
He was born in Chicago.
He is 69 years old, although he spent a lot of his life living in Peru.
But yeah, the main thing is...