Despite all this, the highlight of my day was hearing Sam re-telling the story after I tried to explain to her what was going on. After I told her that I was listening to the radio to hear what they were saying I asked her to listen for them talking about "Pope Francis." I almost forgot she was in the car she was so quiet and then randomly she would squeal- "Ah! They said 'pope francis' again!"
When we got home she asked if she could see a video of him. She was very interested in seeing the black smoke first, then the white smoke. Every time we'd see a video with him in it she's exclaim, "There's the new Hope Francis!" Later we went to a Mexican restaurant to celebrate our Argentinian pope (my mom's words, not mine...she also kept saying "habeñero papus"). Sam started jabbering on and after a few minutes I realized she was re-telling the story of the "New Hope". I'll try to get it on video later, as it's quite detailed, but the rough transcript is below (I had her retell it a few times because it was just so darn impressive).
"Once upon a time there was an old hope and he was old and got retired and said there needed to be a new hope. So he went to sleep and everybody picked a new hope. First there was black smoke and that means there was no hope, but then there was white smoke and that means they picked the new Hope Francis."
It seems so short when typed out...she repeats lines a lot and elaborates on a few details, but that's the jist. I can't bring myself to correct her anymore as it seems very appropriate to call him the new "Hope".
By the way, for those of you who speak Spanish, below is a commercial he did last year at Christmas. Such a sweet smile!
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Well...new Hope, new Pope...I think she has it right. Those who live fully in the secular world without benefit of the Holy Spirit tried to predict the newest pope based on age, skill set, etc. Seems God gave us who He wanted and who we need.
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