FLORIDA
Miami Herald
BY ELIZABETH BAIER, DONNA GEHRKE-WHITE AND DAVID OVALLE
dovalle@herald.com
When word of a new pope flashed from televisions and radios, computers screens and cellphones, Omar Mejis drove to the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables, rosary in hand, to pray among otherwise empty pews.
''I was so excited I got goose bumps,'' Mejis said.
A few miles away in Coconut Grove, Roberto Jimenez strolled at La Ermita de la Caridad Catholic Church -- not to pray, but to show his fiancée the shimmering view of Biscayne Bay. ...
And Pat Desbiens, a South Miami-Dade Catholic still seething over the church's handling of the U.S. priest sexual abuse scandal: ``You know, who cares?''
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