Then, BELLS!


Now, I can’t really fully explain the sensations I experienced when those bells began to tong. They were the same bells that knelled at the funeral mass of John Paul—but now they signaled, and with all the bells of all of Rome, the life of the successor of Peter. The sadness of the past was suddenly washed by the tolling which rang into the deepest recesses of my being. I began to jump up and down.