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Pope celebrations continue into the night

2013-03-14 99 Dailymotion

(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Celebrations in Buenos AIres carried on into the night on Wednesday (March 13) as residents turned out at the city's cathedral after the first Argentine Pope was named.<br/> <br />The large crowd of several hundred chanted slogans and waved Argentine flags.<br/> <br />One nun, Sister Laura, said she liked the name given to the new pope. "It's a simple name, a name for the people, it's a loved name and one that is used, and of great wisdom," she said.<br/> <br />The new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, took the name Pope Francis when he was elected to the post on Wednesday.<br/> <br />Bergoglio of Argentina was elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the troubled Roman Catholic Church, becoming the first non-European pontiff in nearly 1,300 years.<br/> <br />Pope Francis, 76, appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica just over an hour after white smoke poured from a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel to signal 115 cardinal electors had

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