GEORGIA ( WGNO ) — In Friday’s “Lunchtime Lagniappe,” the world is celebrating a new pope, and one Catholic School in Georgia is hoping one of its students may follow in Pope Leo XIV ‘s footsteps.
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During the week of the conclave, second graders at Pinecrest Academy held their own conclave. Students played cardinals and elected a new pope from their class.
This was purely educational to teach the kids about the conclave process. The students had to vote, and then after the ballots were burned and a kid pope was selected, then white smoke appeared.
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Then the pretend-pontiff appeared, a student known as Pope David, who made his rounds around campus being driven in a golf cart labeled the “Pope Mobile.”
Of course, Pope David was surrounded by an extensive security team…