Nigeria, April 23 -- In the quiet stillness of the Vatican, when a pope draws his final breath, time seems to pause. The man who once bore the weight of a billion souls is now in the hands of the One he served. It begins not with grand proclamations, but with ritual. The Camerlengo, chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, enters the papal apartment. He calls the pope by his baptismal name three times. No response. He touches the forehead with a small silver hammer, once a more literal tap, now a ceremonial gesture, and declares the pontiff dead. The Ring of the Fisherman is then broken, shattered with a special tool,same hammer signifying that the authority of the Vicar of Christ has ceased. With that solemn act, the seat of Saint Peter is ...