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On April 19, 2005, at 4:50PM white 

smoke billowed out of the chimney 

perched atop the Sistine Chapel. 

Cardinals had chosen Joseph Ratzinger 

as the new Pope. About an hour alter, 

he stepped out into the balcony 

overlooking St. Peter's Square, and the 

world met the man who would take 

over for John Paul II, Benedict XVI.