On March 13, 2013, Pope Francis was elected as pope and made his first public appearance in the role at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. That day, Tom Schulzetenberg, the director of strategic projects at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and his wife, JoAnn, the head of school at the Way of the Shepherd in Blaine, were in St. Peter’s Square when white smoke appeared from the specially-installed chimney of the Sistine Chapel, indicating a new pope had been selected.
