American Pope wtf? Please tell me this guy isn’t a Trumper.
As a non practicing catholic I am surprised at an American pope. What is the church’s angle here. He wasn’t even one of the top five or six favorites from what I saw.
Lowered tariff rates.
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Same. Uninformed guess is they’re going for policy continuity. Also guessing from his bio Trump ain’t gonna like him. Weird compromises and backroom deals all round.
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and will soon step onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
Prevost, 69, from Chicago, Illinois, is the first ever pope from the United States. He will be known as Leo XIV.
A leader with global experience, he spent much of his career as a missionary in South America and most recently led a powerful Vatican office for bishop appointments. He is expected to build on Pope Francis’ reforms.
He worked for a decade in Trujillo, Peru, and was later appointed bishop of Chiclayo, another Peruvian city, where he served from 2014 to 2023.
In an interview with Vatican News shortly after he became the leader of the Dicastery for Bishops, Prevost said: “I still consider myself a missionary. My vocation, like that of every Christian, is to be a missionary, to proclaim the Gospel wherever one is.”
Fuck missionaries. But at least he doesn’t sound like a regressive JD Vance type.
It’s one thing to proclaim. Another to force.
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Stunt casting by a dying franchise, gasping to stay relevant. This is like the Office replacing Steve Carell with Will Farrell
Gonna LOL if this guy has any MS-13 tattoos.
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Seven more languages than Trump.
speaks English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese and can read Latin and German
Are we sure he’s American?
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He had 7k followers when I copied that tweet.
Yeah, unless you believe in some form of deification.
It is something that the only thing the new Pope has tweeted about since he became cardinal is that JD Vance is wack. Not a serious species.
I stopped watching the office when it fell off so hard after the first few seasons I thought this was a joke and had to google it lol
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It was supposed to be James Gandolfini but NBC had to scramble and find someone else when HBO paid Gandolfini not to accept the role.
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It was a short-lived story line.
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