Word: gaudium
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Suddenly, after the puzzling signals began to billow [from the Sistine Chapel chimney], the Vatican's ranking Cardinal-deacon in the Sacred College, appeared at the Window of the Benediction in St. Peter's Basilica. His Latin words boomed out over loudspeakers: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!" (I announce to you a great joy. We have a Pope!) "He is the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord Cardinal Albino Luciani, who has taken the name of John Paul the First...
...more than an hour after the puzzling signals began to billow forth, the Vatican's Pericle Felici, ranking Cardinal-deacon in the Sacred College, appeared at the opened Window of the Benediction in the center of St. Peter's Basilica. His Latin words boomed out over loudspeakers: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!" (I announce to you a great joy. We have a Pope!) The crowd was hushed as Felici went on: "He is the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord Cardinal Albino Luciani, who has taken the name of John Paul the First [in Latin, Joannes Paulus Primus...
...homage to the new Pope. Messages will be dispatched to the octogenarian Cardinals outside the conclave. Then, with the crowds waiting in St. Peter's Square, the senior Cardinal Deacon will step out on the central balcony of St. Peter's and declare, "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!" (I announce to you a great joy. We have a Pope!) The new Pontiff, the Cardinal will continue, is "the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord Cardinal --, who has taken the name --." At that moment the world will learn the identity of the new Pope...
...when word flashed from Rome that a new Pope had been chosen. It was 9:07 a.m. on the West Coast-time to make breakfast or to drive to work-when the flickering radio signal carried the voice of Cardinal Canali announcing, in his soft, Italianate Latin: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum-habemus papam." The press, whose attention for days had been focused on the smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel, promptly provided both great clouds and small wisps of facts about the man who would henceforth be known as John XXIII. TIME'S task was to organize the mass...
...third ballot, the decision came. Cardinal Pacelli suddenly hid his deathly pale face in his hands. At the end of the roll, it was evident that only Pacelli had voted against Pacelli. Outside, before the wildly cheering crowd, a cardinal solemnly pronounced the ancient formula: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus papam . . . [I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope...