Drama, Fashion and Cigarettes: Internet Casts Pop Gaze on Pope’s Selection
The conclave is one of the world’s most solemn, sacred and consequential elections. It is also a secretive meeting of older men who wear red robes and engage in politicking, scheming and smoking while picking the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics. The internet could not resist. “It’s so wild,” Rob Anderson, an…