Besides the larger crowds, including the many cardinals and diplomats, there was not much else about the Angelus on Sunday or the Audience on Wednesday that screamed something truly historic, truly unprecedented was taking place. Both the Angelus and the Audience stuck to their basic scripts and...

"As the white smoke started billowing out of the chimney and the bells began to ring out across Rome, people immediately started flooding into the St. Peter's Square from all over," writes Fr. Andrew Gawrych, C.S.C., from St. Peter's Square. "They streamed through the Bernini columns so that...