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Church into a new era. megyn: it will be exciting to watch and wonderful to see the message in sunday mass and how his humility and message will translate to regular folks sitting in their sunday church services just like they do every week, or in some cases. not so every week. john moody, thank you so much. you ve been helpful. back to shepard smith live in rome. so lucky. shepard: thank you. let s get down to amy kellogg, live in st. peter s square and witnessed history before her eyes. how with was it? we have a pope and we know longer have rain but people are filing out, content they were blessed by the new pope, pope francis. it was an extraordinary moment. i think people packed into the square before the white smoke rose as if they had a spiritual ....
Of communications now. he used to be my correspondent in rome, greg burke. he can help the church open up. these days it has done so. shepard: it certainly has. it s been open the last few weeks and months and last couple of years, whether it liked it or not. yes, indeed. a great honor, thank you. thank you. thank you. today we have a pope. pop francis, the man of the people, the man who came before the faithful in st. peter s square as the rain fell and chill sat in and asked the faithful to pray for him and thanked his predecessor and wished hope and love for catholics around the world. our coverage will continue on fox news, satellite, and cable and on your late local and evening news. i m shepard smith, fox news in ....
In just a little while, the cardinal from france, who s actually a will be leading tonight. his name is john louis theron. he ll come to the curtain and he ll announce we have a pope and he ll introduce who the pope is and read the pope s first name in latin and from that we ll be able to figure out who the pope is. robert moynihan is with us, he s the founder of inside the vatican.com. sir, it s the moment that catholics have been waiting since we learned of the resignation of pope benedict xvi. the front runner, it was our understanding, would be the cardinal from milan. angelo scola has been considered the front runner, shep, we don t know. he was considered the front runner? that s right. if he comes out, it won t be a big surprise. ....
Spot in the catholic church. a man who has always askewed cooks but he s in italy now. consider it. great joy. we have a pope. [ applause ] the conclave was to give rome a bishop. it looks like my brother, the cardinal, went to find him at the end of the world almost. but here we are. [ applause ....
Needs to happen inside the vatican to happen before we see the new pope emerge right there before your eyes on that balcony. again, just to refresh you, the first person who will come out will not be the new pope. it will be the person who will be announcing the new pope. the proto-deacon, 69-year-old french cardinal. and it is not the 69-year-old french cardinal who emerges? then we can assume that he is the pope, but we believe that he hasn t been mentioned as one of the frontrunners so we believe he will be the first one to emerge and make the announcement, we have a pope. and announce to the world the new pope in latin and hopefully we ll recognize that person upon sight although it s not entirely clear whether we will. and it s funny, you know, john, these popes obviously in the catholic church are not allowed to marry, but they ....