Sitting in St Peters and praying my rosary today,
I couldn't help but think back eight years. I wasn't in Rome at the time for the election of Joseph Ratzinger as Benedict XVI in 2005. Still it seems like yesterday I was at our
seminary in Ireland staring at a little chimney which suddenly started to spew
white smoke - a historic moment! Today was one more in that series of spiritually earth-shaking moments in the Church and the world.
