How four SoCal women on a ‘girls trip’ stumbled onto Pope Leo’s election

As far as theatrics go, there’s not much that can match what I got to witness in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday, May 8, 2025.

The black smoke in the morning, then the white smoke in the evening. The sounds of those enormous bells and the jovial marching bands echoing through the square. The Habemus Papam! and the astonished stares among journalists when we heard Cardinal Robert Prevost’s name. The roar of the crowd and the sight of the first American pope introducing himself to the world in Italian and Spanish.

As Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York told journalists the next day: “Nobody does drama like the holy Roman Catholic Church.”

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(Photo Credit: Maria Lafarga)