Reaction of the faithful at 7:30 tonight in Berlin, about an hour after Cardinal Ratzinger became Benedict XVI, the first German pope since 1057.
This was at St. Hedwig's Cathedral (scroll down for photos), one of Berlin's main Catholic churches. Of course more people showed up than this guy, but the press outnumbered the flock.
UPDATE: A real crowd showed up in Cologne, at the nation's largest cathedral, but the doors were locked.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
11:42 PM
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From AP story found at Yahoo! News : "Niels Hendrich, 40, of Hamburg, Germany, jumped up and down at the prospect of a new pope — but then gave only three halfhearted claps when he learned who it was."
