By Mariel Padilla for The 19th After a little more than 24 hours of anticipation, the telltale white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday—signaling that the Roman Catholic Church’s 133 eligible cardinals had come to a two-thirds majority vote on who the next pope should be. The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica chimed, […]

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