While addressing the Argentinian Senate on Wednesday, Senator Liliana Negre de Alonso received the news Cardinal Bergoglio had been elected Pope. \u00a0\u201cBergolio was chosen?\u201d she interrupted her speech. <\/p>\n
She turned to the other senators to confirm what she had just learned. \u00a0Requesting permission to interrupt from the President of the Senate, Negre de Alonso became visibly emotional. \u00a0\u201cForgive me I cannot continue speaking, I am too excited.\u201d \u00a0After being granted an interruption from the President, she continued:<\/p>\n
\u201cI am supremely excited as a Catholic, as an Argentinian. \u00a0Catholics of the world now have a new head. \u00a0As an Argentinian I feel extremely proud of a hero, of a martyr, of a man who has given his life to the church: perseverance, loyalty! \u00a0I stand symbolically before the new sovereign of the Catholic Church, before the Successor of Peter, before the representative of Christ on earth and my heart swells with pride because an Argentinian brother has risen to occupy this place. \u00a0Thank you Mr. Presdient.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While addressing the Argentinian Senate on Wednesday, Senator Liliana Negre de Alonso received the news Cardinal Bergoglio had been elected Pope. \u00a0\u201cBergolio was chosen?\u201d she interrupted her speech. She turned to the other senators to confirm what she had just learned. \u00a0Requesting permission to interrupt from the President of the Senate, Negre de Alonso became […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n