This also means Trump doesn’t need to worry about a 25% tariff on foreign religions.
I wonder how much money it took Musk to buy this position.
I was really rooting for Pizzaballa lol
An American pope? In this economy?
Dissapointed they didn’t fire off the day time fireworks and have f-35’s do a fly by to born in the USA
Do we know on which side he’s on? Like more progressive or more conservative?
Do we know on which side he’s on?
Yes he’s part of a homophobic, misogynist and authoritarian cult
But apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
More progressive overall but he has a history of making anti-gay statements.
In line with Francis on migrants and the poor. He thinks social elements like position on LGBT issues should be set at the regional level and align with local cultural acceptance.
In other words, slightly progressive from a Catholic leadership standpoint, but conservative when compared against Western Europe.
Do we think he’ll help hide Americans in Africa whem this is over?
He has been protecting pedophiles in the past: https://willcountygazette.com/stories/671124585-if-he-saw-and-stayed-silent-he-s-not-a
In March, SNAP sent a letter to Vatican leadership detailing the conduct of Prevost in two separate incidents of priest sexual abuse, demanding an investigation ahead of the looming Conclave. The letter details accusations of “inaction” during his time both as an Augustinian provincial in the U.S. and as Bishop of Chiclayo in Peru, where Prevost served from 2014 to 2023. The letter alleged that Prevost allowed known sex abusers to remain in ministry, and failed to investigate serious claims brought by victims, including three Peruvian minor girls who said their reports were ignored and mishandled. It also details the case of Fr. James Ray, a priest accused of sexual abuse in Waukegan and Wauconda who Prevost allowed to live at St. John Stone Friary in Hyde Park, a half block from St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School.
Find a cardinal that hasn’t
Somewhere there must be at least one, but he will surely never be considered for the position of pope. For that exact reason, obviously.
Still better than the other US candidate
But still worse than a good person
Yeah, with hirachic systems, it’s not the nicest people climbing to the top.
With the catholic church, I’m happy when it doesn’t go back in time but slowly forward.
There was no chance that some Jesus type person with a completely white west would get elected, but there was a good chance that a completely soulless bastard would’ve risen to the top.
My first impression after hearing him, is that the catholic church has a chance to reform now.
Dolan would have been a disaster, as he’s licking authorats boots and actively fighting to hide child abuse.
I see… So we just need to silently accept that the Church is and will be actively protecting pedophiles because reasons… Ok! Also you seem easily manipulated if what you have seen makes you say that “the catholic church has a chance to reform now”. Bro, for fuck sake, wake up! This guy is the classic conservative piece of catholic shit against women, homosexuality and so on…
That’s a job requirement with the Catholic Church.
Fuck this pope, fuck the last pope, and fuck all popes. This piece of shit wants to takeover another religious scam? Then fuck him and the people that support this hate religion.
25 minutes ago
I predicted to myself that the next pope was going to be a white European over 70 years of age,
1 out of 3, I suppose.
I also figured that he definitely wouldn’t be American, but if he was, he’d be a radical.
(this posted 8 May 2025, 17:50 UTC (1:50 PM EDT))
First USA pope. Someone made a lot of money on betting apps.
I lost $2 when he picked “Leo” instead of “Bootylicious”…
Latin is such a beautiful language
Pope Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho XII.
I picked “Pope Super Bowl XVII”
The team that shall not be named won that one
Tbh, I just randomly picked some Roman numerals. But yeah.
Damn, Vatican, read the room, mate
Bro, we can send Vance to meet this guy.
Maybe that’s why Vance met Francis.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-could-it-be-american-cardinal-robert-prevost/
Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota, was appointed less than a week ago by President Trump to the new White House Commission on Religious Liberty. This week, however, he was at the Vatican with hundreds of other prelates as the cardinal electors gather for the conclave to choose a new pontiff.
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“Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won’t be an American pope.’ And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don’t want America running the world religiously. So, I think there’s some truth to that, that we’re such a superpower and so dominant, they don’t wanna give us, also, control over the church.”
I was gonna post the same quote - quite the subtle dig.
That’s… Sad.
so… the u.s. circling the drain of democracy is what finally got them a turn.
We needed an American religious figure on the world stage to take on the anti-christ for the final boss battles
This was the opinion of one cardinal, not like it was an official stance of the church.
I don’t think he’s a cardinal, just a bishop. But I also don’t really know how the Catholic church works
Bishops move diagonally
OK? It’s still telling.
first American pope
Pope Francis, who was born in South America: “Am I a joke to you?”
first Yankee* Pope.
The United States is the only country in the world that does not have a gentile for itself. They call themselves citizens of the continent that they share with other countries, seeming to appropriate the entire continent.
At the time it was the only “country” on the continent. There were people actually arguing for not including the “of America” too, so it would just be “United States”
It’s one of those things that made sense at the time, but looks a little weird if you don’t account for the history.
Folks living in the British colonies wanted to differentiate themselves from the English, so they called themselves “Americans” because they were in the “American colonies.”
The name stuck after the colonies became the United States.
It’s a very American thing to do.
It makes a lot more sense if you look back at what the colonies were called when the name was adopted. It’s really just a holdover from a naming solution that wasn’t very weird during the time that it was introduced. Language evolves in weird and funky ways.
It was Thomas Jefferson’s dream after all
I like the spanish demonym for those of us from the United States: estadounidense. If you were to translate it literally it’d be like unitedstatesian, like brazilian (braziliense)
Same thing in French : États uniens, États uniennes
So do French call themselves Republicans instead of French?
Id love to hear someone from Kentucky take a crack at that one
Esta-dooni-dense
Oh god, I’m not sure I’d be able to keep a straight face if someone pronounced that with a southern drawl.
But “American” is what people from the USA are usually called.
I remember calling a business in Canada and they asked me where I was from and I replied “America.” They replied with “We’re in America, too.” Then I was speaking with a guy from Poland who said he was vacationing in “America” so I asked which state and he said “Roatan.”
Sounds about right of them to take more than they are entitled
Yeah, I sometimes say USAian or United Statesian, but that obviously doesn’t flow. It exists in other languages, but not English.
Also, personal nitpick, I don’t love when the continent of America refers to both N and S America.
“But it’s one landmass!!1!” Yeah, so is AfroEurasia. Continents don’t actually have an agreed upon meaning, so… it’s just, like, my opinion man.
Usonian?
You could always go with the classic “Yankee.”
I like the term seppo myself
Pope Yippee ki-yay
US American
The funny thing is it’s always South Americans trying to force their cultural norms on others and getting angry.
To be fair, South Americans have a lot of very legitimate reasons to be angry at the US.
American? Aw, hell. Trump is going to boast about this being a win for him and the Catholic Church groveling to him.
Trump wanted to be so The pope so bad that he was posting pictures of himself as Pope.
If anything I think he will be pissed that an American was chosen and it wasn’t him.
I give it a few hours before he’s posting that the papal election was riggedI don’t think Trump seriously thought he would be the Pope.
I think Trump will think he has some control over and a direct line to an American Pope.
He already congratulated the new pope in a statement.
Let’s not make shit up. There’s enough real scandals surrounding him.
There’s no making anything up, I clearly made a bet on his behavior and I was wrong.
Let’s not twist words when there’s enough real misinformation on this site.
Eh, he’d find a way of boasting and taking credit for it whoever the new pope was.
Trump was directly responsible, though.
How does that suggest Trump was directly responsible?
The idea is that the USA is no longer considered a political or economic superpower because of Trump.
I think the implication is that Mango making the US no longer a secular power facilitated this.
That was my intended joke. Guess it was a little too subtle for most people 😕
