Holy Smoke! We have a new Pope.

[Blaster]

Sounds like a personal problem to me.

Did I have a choice?

 

[mudwhistle]

A lot of hoopla about something so insignificant.
Don't mean that as disrespectful, but it is a guy in a white costume.
And usually a really old guy that has lived his life in a bubble of existence that is completely disconnected from the rest of the world

He's only one year older than me.

He looks 20 years older than me.

 

[The Duke]

I don't mean to be critical but this looks like the coronation of a King from centuries ago. Does any other religion do this?

Because it kinda is, and probably some Orthodox or Episcopal ones do similar things,
but not like the original. This is human tradition. Western Civilization.

 

[0311]

But not a Trump Pope

Trump is NOT Catholic. Cannon Law requires the Pontiff be Catholic.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

He's only one year older than me.

He looks 20 years older than me.

You must look really young then.

My wife asked me when she was in the other room what he looked like. I said Tim Walz with glasses.

 

[The Duke]

I don’t speak Italian. And my Latin was always weak.

So I wish the Yankee Pope would toss in a little English!

Didn't happen.

 

[0311]

Wow! We have an American pope! Did not see that coming.

My wife is a former Cistercian Nun she totally amazed. She thought that she would live to see an American Pope.

 

[Andrew_Jackson_FTW]

Breaking News.
White smoke is currently rising from the rooftops of the Sisteen Chapel.
That means a new Pope has been chosen.

In about forty minutes, his Holiness will be announced to the world.

I’m so proud to be a Catholic. This is really cool that we have an American pope.
That’s what it’s all about man the proudness. All of the great things that church has done for history. Helping poor people standing and fighting for what is right.

Like in my signature the Knights Hospitallar !! It is an organization of Knights are dedicated to fighting for the poor and providing medical relief to not only their Christian brothers, but also to Jews and Muslims. There’s your love there’s your tolerance. There is your glory.

 

[The Duke]

He is a protege of Francis, and served in Peru.

I doubt that apple will fall far from the tree.

Idk about all that.

 

[Andrew_Jackson_FTW]

Woooooo! The first ever American pope.

God bless Pope Leo XIV

 

[Andrew_Jackson_FTW]

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Fairly young, age 70 this September.

He chose to wear a more traditionally Papal vestment.

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Per the opinion of one of my favorite Catholic analysts, it could have been worse. Not my pick, but hopefully not as bad as Jorge Bergoglio. I will spend a lot of time listening to those whose opinions I trust.


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This is going to be great. There’s now going to be an increase in Catholics in America because of the first ever American pope.

In my opinion what is so beautiful about the Catholic Church is tradition.. Upholding the traditions of the Roman Empire and Catholic Kingdoms of history…. Respecting the ceremony of electing the pope. And just respecting the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, what I mean by this is paying respect to the priests, the bishops, the Cardinals and the pope who put their entire life all that they are into their work, which is carrying out the word of Jesus.

The Catholic Church today is as strong as it has ever been growing in Number in Africa for example . There’s hundreds of millions of African Catholics. Catholics all over the world. It is the largest religious group in the world.

 

[Shamrock17]

Hopefully the new one won't be from south of the border.

More like the southside of Chicago...

He was born and raised in Dolton, a south suburb of Chicago. His family lived in a house on East 141st Place in Dolton, and he attended St. Mary of the Assumption Parish, which borders Dolton on Chicago’s Far South Side.

 

[MarathonMike]

How many other 2000-year-old religions are there that select a Pope?

I meant more generally, not the exact procedure and spectacle.

 

[Shamrock17]

Born in Chicago.....just like Obama.

Who's the Anti-Christ?

I thought Obama was born in HI.

 

[Shamrock17]

This is a very interesting situation that will have an effect on Trump

The new pope is American (Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost) and now the American Christians may be moving away from Trump.

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Yeah, of course the above would make perfect sense if one is a rabid anti-Trumper.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Yes helping people is awful. Great sign.

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So, hypocrisy is okay, especially when it's used on you?


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[toobfreak]

Holy Smoke! We have a new Pope.​

The new Pope Donald, er, Leo. The Pope of America.

Kinda has a nice ring to it.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Yeah, of course the above would make perfect sense if one is a rabid anti-Trumper.

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Every Christ hater is going to suddenly love this guy.


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[hjmick]

JEEZ-ITS FOR EVERYONE!

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[struth]

But not a Trump Pope

Trump lobbied for an American…the church listened