Where were you when the white smoke billowed from the Vatican?  I was on my way back to the parish when my cell phone kept rapidly beeping as one text after another poured in.  Back in the parish office, I learned the Jesuit Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina had been elected and taken the name Francis – I assumed it was for St. Francis Xavier the great Jesuit missionary and that new evangelization would be the focus of his pontificate.  A good choice and a great aim.

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