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Friday, April 22, 11 pm, Vatican City I was rushing out as the crowd was rushing in. It was about six minutes after the bells began to toll over St. Peter's Square, confirming that the smoke was white and we indeed had a Papam. The descending swarm from every direction into the piazza was dazzling, but I was the only soul going in the other direction. This was going to be a case of the reporter missing the experience for the sake of the story. The plan for our three-person team, which included TIME colleagues Jordan Bonfante...
Daily reports from the scene in Vatican City The New Bishop of Rome Ratzinger Gets a Cold Top 10 Papal Candidates The Conclave's Length Cardinals Do Lunch Chasing Italian Cardinals Reading the Silence The Return of Cardinal...
...that would impress Karol Wojtyla. Now that he is Pope Benedict XVI, it all seems pre-destined. But back when TIME reported a story in early January saying then Cardinal Ratzinger had reemerged as a leading frontrunner for the papacy, it was still difficult for many to imagine. One Vatican source told me this week that some colleagues were laughing about the piece when it came out, thinking Ratzinger was long since out of the running because he'd been branded as a doctrinal hardliner and unpleasant bureaucrat. But in fact, my sources were on target. Still, to go from...
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...time in 1996 at an exhibition of photographs inside the Vatican, I went over to thank him on behalf of all my colleagues for having always given us so much in our work over the years. He looked at me and said "You are young, you will photograph other Popes." Through all his illnesses, he always continued to offer himself out to the public, and to us. But I could never stop thinking about what he'd told me. And even more...