White smoke billowed from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Wednesday indicating the cardinals have selected a new pope after two days of voting. This came after the resignation of Benedict XVI, a first in in 600 years. Selected was Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who is the first non-Eurpean pontiff in nearly 1,300 years. He has chosen the name Pope Francis I.
Pope Francis reportedly got the second most number of votes in the papal election of 2005 after Joseph Ratzinger. Francis is known to be reserved and humble. He is also known for his social outreach visiting slums of Argentina. The Latin America has the largest share of the world's catholics.
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