The Vatican says French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran has become the
prelate who would make the announcement "Habemus Papam" (We have a pope)
to the world in the event of the election of a new pontiff.
The
67-year-old Tauran is the new Proto-Deacon of the College of Cardinals,
whose duties include introducing the new pope after his election.
Tauran, who heads the Vatican's office for relations with non-Christians, succeeds Italian Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan.
It
was a Chilean cardinal, Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez, who announced on
April 19, 2005, that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had been elected pope and
taken the name Benedict XVI.