St. Theresa School students in Coral Gables cheered after election of new pope, priest says

After achromatic fume roseate retired of the Sistine Chapel’s chimney successful Vatican City, the bells from Roman Catholic churches astir the satellite started tolling.

Church of the Little Flower Rev. Manuel F. Alvarez, amended known arsenic “Father Manny,” was with St. Theresa School students.

“There were astir 30 1st-graders wrong the schoolroom and they conscionable went nuts erstwhile they saw the achromatic smoke,” Alvarez said.

Pope Francis’s successor Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, of Chicago, secured astatine slightest 89 retired of the 133 cardinals’ votes.

“It is simply a joyful time for the church,” Alvarez said.

There were 10 from the U.S., including Archbishop Timothy Dolan, of New York.

The students watched connected tv however the assemblage successful St. Peter’s Square waited for the caller pope to marque his archetypal quality from a red-draped balcony astatine St. Peter’s Basilica.

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