Fox News senior correspondent Benjamin Hall discusses the process of the papal conclave vote on ‘The Story.’

Who expected Pope Francis's pontificate to last until 2025 when it began in 2013?

Born in 1936, ordained a priest in 1969, installed as archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and elevated to the College of Cardinals three years later, when the Conclave was summoned by the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was on few of any lists of "papabile" when the proceeding commenced.

His election was an even bigger surprise for a Catholic Church unused to papal resignations much less a pope from far away South America. Pope Francis was an older man with one lung and neither he nor his fellow cardinals thought in 2013 of the first ever Jesuit pope as naming two-thirds of the cardinals voting in the next Conclave. Such is the working of the Holy Spirit, Catholics very much believe, that surprises should never really surprise.

So who knows what to expect? Or when? Expectations are foolish. But "hopes" are not heresy, and I am hoping for a younger man from among the cardinals.

My very simple reason is that the older the cardinal the less likely he is to be well versed in the speed of events and communication in this decade. The successor to Saint Peter will be arriving in his office aware of the unrelenting, indeed ferocious, speed of the world’s crises. But only a handful of the older men will........

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